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INTRODUCTION 

The studies for this brief history were prepared 
for a paper read by Mr. Kelby on November 1, 
1904, as a retrospect of the century which had 
elapsed since the foundation of the Society. The 
present volume includes the chief points of the 
" Retrospect," and an appendix gives a list of the 
publications of the Society and other details of 
interest in its history. 

Daniel Parish, Jr., 
Frederic Wendell Jackson, 
Robert H. Kelby, 

Committee on Publications. 



CONTENTS 







PAGE 


Introduction ....... 


iii 


The New York Historical Society, 1804-1904 . 


1-74 


Appendix .... 




. 75 


Officers, 1905 . 




. 77 


Executive Committee 


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. 78 


Trustees of New Building 


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. 79 


Officers, 1805-1905 




. 83 


Honorary Members . 




. 95 


Patrons ..... 


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. 106 


Fellows ..... 


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. 107 


Annual and Life Members 


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. 108 


Subscribers to the Fund for the Pin 


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New Building . 




. 123 


Subscribers to the Building Fund 




. 127 


Permanent Funds 




. 131 


Bibliography ..... 




. 135 



ILLUSTRATIONS 

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FOUNDERS OF THE SOCIETY 



THE 
NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY 

1804-1904 

The plan for the organization of this institu- 
tion originated with John Pintard, through whose 
exertions several meetings for the purpose were 
held in a room of the City Hall, Wall Street, in 
1804. After canvassing the matter for some time, 
the persons who had been invited to take part in 
the preliminary arrangements appointed a com- 
mittee to draft a constitution, under which an or- 
ganization finally took place. 

The minutes of the Society contain the follow- 
ing record of the first meeting: 

" New York, November 20, 1804. 

The following persons, vizt.— Egbert Benson, 
DeWitt Clinton, Rev. William Linn, Rev. Samuel 
Miller, Rev. John N. Abeel, Rev. John M. Mason, 
Doctor David Hosack, Anthony Bleecker, Samuel 
Bayard, Peter G. Stuyvesant, and John Pintard, 
being assembled in the Picture Room of the City 
Hall of the City of New York, agreed to form 
themselves into a Society, the principal design of 

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which should be to collect and preserve whatever 
may relate to the natural, civil or ecclesiastical 
History of the United States in general, and of this 
State in particular, and appointed Mr. Benson, 
Doctor Miller, and Mr. Pintard a committee to 
prepare and report a draft of a Constitution." 

The meeting then adjourned until Monday 
evening, December 10th, following. 

At this meeting the following gentlemen were 
present : 

Egbert Benson, Chairman. 

De Witt Clinton, Rev. John C. Kunze, 

Rev. John M. Mason, Rev. Samuel Miller, 

Rev. John Bowden, Dr. Peter Wilson, 

Rev. Wiliam Harris, Peter G. Stuyvesant, 

Dr. John Kemp, John Murray, Jr., 

Daniel D. Tompkins, Rev. John H. Hobart, 

Rufus King, Dr. David Hosack, 

Rev. John N\ Abeel, Dr. Archibald Bruce, 
John Pintard. 

A constitution was adopted, and the institution 
was named " The New York Historical Society." 
The first regular meeting after the adoption of 
the constitution was held January 14, 1805, at 
which time the Society was organized by the elec- 
tion of the following 



Officers : 

Egbert Benson, President. 

Rt. Rev. Benjamin Moore, D.D., 
First Vice-President. 

Brockholst Livingston, 
Second Vice-President. 

Rev. Samuel Miller, D.D., 
Corresponding Secretary. 

John Pintard, Recording Secretary. 

Charles Wilkes, Treasurer. 

John Forbes, Librarian. 

STANDING COMMITTEE 

William Johnson, Daniel D. Tompkins, 

Dr. Saml. L. Mitchill, John McKesson, 
Dr. David Hosack, Anthony Bleecker, 

Rev. John M. Mason, D.D. 

A Seal was adopted, and later a Vignette for 
Diploma, by Durand, showing the arrival of 
Henry Hudson, 1609. 

The following short sketch of the lives of the 
eleven gentlemen who first met on Tuesday, No- 
vember 20, 1804, may prove interesting: 

Egbert Benson, first president of the Society 
was born in this city, June 21, 1746, and died in 
Jamaica, L. I., August 24, 1833. He was the first 

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Attorney General of the State, 1777-89, a member 
of the Continental Congress, 1784-88, and was re- 
turned to the First and to the Second Congress. 
He was Judge of the Supreme Court of New 
York, 1794-1802, and member of Congress again, 
1813-15. He delivered before the Society, De- 
cember 31, 1816, a memoir on Dutch names of 
places. Judge Benson served as president until 
1815, when he declined a reelection. 

De Witt Clinton, vice-president, 1810-16; 
president of the Society, 1817-19, was born near 
Little Britain, N. Y., March 2, 1769; died at 
Albany, February 11, 1828; was graduated from 
Columbia College, 1786; private secretary to his 
uncle, Gov. George Clinton, 1790-95; member of 
Assembly, 1797, and of the State Senate, 1798- 
1802 and 1806-11; United States Senator, 1802- 
03; Mayor of this city, 1803-07, 1809-10, and 
1811 — 15, and by his wise and efficient administra- 
tion contributed much to the prosperity of the city ; 
one of the founders of this Society and the Acad- 
emy of Fine Arts; first president of the Literary 
and Philosophical Society; Lieutenant-Governor 
of this State, 1811-13, and Governor of the State, 
1817-22 and 1824-27; initiated the construction of 
the Erie Canal, 1815; Canal Commissioner, 1816, 
1823-24. The opening of the Erie Canal was cele- 
brated with a great demonstration in October, 
1825, Gov. Clinton was conveyed in a barge on a 
triumphal progress from Lake Erie to this city, 
and on November 4th following proceeded down 

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the bay to the ocean, when Clinton with great sol- 
emnity poured from an elegant keg adorned with 
many devices and inscriptions, and gilded hoops, 
the waters of Lake Erie into the Atlantic Ocean. 
The keg, preserved as a precious memento of the 
interesting ceremony, is in the possession of this So- 
ciety. Clinton delivered the anniversary discourse 
before the Society in 1811, which was published. 

Rev. William Linn, D.D., was born in Ship- 
pensburg, Pa., February 27, 1752 ; son of William 
and Susanna (Trimble) Linn, and grandson of 
William Linn, who with his son William came 
from the north of Ireland in 1732, and settled 
in the township of Lurgan, Cumberland County, 
Pa. William 3d was graduated at the College 
of New Jersey, 1772; studied theology with 
the Rev. Dr. Robert Cooper, and was chaplain 
of the Fifth and Sixth Battalions, Continental 
army. He was pastor of the Presbyterian church, 
Big Spring (Newville), Pa., 1777-84; at Eliza- 
bethtown, N. J., 1784-85; of the Collegiate Dutch 
Reformed church, New York city, 1787-1805; 
president pro tempore of Rutgers College, 1791- 
94, and trustee 1787-1808; regent of the Uni- 
versity of the State of New York, 1787-1808; 
chaplain of the House of Representatives, First 
Congress, 1789-91, and was elected president of 
Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1804, but 
not inaugurated. He received the degree of D.D. 
from the College of New Jersey in 1789. He was 
married first to Rebecca, daughter of the Rev. 

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John Blair, vice-president of the College of New 
Jersey; secondly to Mrs. Catherine Moore, widow 
of Dr. Moore, of New York city; and thirdly to 
Helen Hanson. He is the author of " Sermons " 
(1791), " Signs of the Times " (1794), " Funeral 
Eulogy on Washington" (1800), and "Sermon 
on the Death of Alexander Hamilton" (1804). 
He died in Albany, N, Y., January 8, 1808. 

Rev. Samuel Miller, D.D., corresponding 
secretary of the Society, 1805-13, was born near 
Dover, Del., October 31, 1769; son of the Rev. 
John and Margaret (Millington) Miller; grand- 
son of Allumby and Elizabeth (Harris) Milling- 
ton, of Talbot County, Md., and of John Miller, 
a Scotchman, who immigrated to Boston, Mass., in 
1719, where he married Margaret Bass, of Brain- 
tree. Samuel received his preparatory educa- 
tion under his father; entered the senior class 
of the University of Pennsylvania, and was 
graduated there with first honors, 1789. He 
was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of 
Lewes, Del., October 13, 1791, shortly after 
his father's death, and completed his theological 
studies under the Rev. Charles Nisbet in 1792. 
He preached in several churches in Delaware; 
was a colleague to the Rev. Dr. Rodgers and 
the Rev. Dr. McKnight in the "Brick" and 
' Wall Street " church, known then as the First 
Church, New York city, 1793-1809, and sole pas- 
tor of the Wall Street church, 1809-13. He was 
married October 24, 1801, to Sarah, daughter of 

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the Hon. Jonathan Dickinson and Margaret 
(Spencer) Sergeant, of Philadelphia, Pa. He 
was moderator of the General Assembly of the 
Presbyterian Church in 1806; a founder and direc- 
tor of Princeton Theological Seminary, 1812-13, 
and Professor of Ecclesiastical History and 
Church Government there 1813-49, and professor 
emeritus 1849-50. He was commissioned by Gov- 
ernor Tompkins chaplain of the First Regiment of 
the New York Artillery in April, 1809. He made 
strong efforts to promote peace between the two 
factions of the Presbyterian Church. He declined 
the presidency of the University of North Caro- 
lina and of Hamilton College in 1812. He was a 
trustee of Columbia College, 1806-13, and of the 
College of New Jersey, 1807-50. He became a 
member of the American Philosophical Society in 
1800; a corresponding member of the Philosophi- 
cal Society of Manchester, England, 1804; and a 
corresponding member of the Massachusetts and 
New Jersey Historical Societies. He received the 
honorary degree A.M. from Yale and the College 
of New Jersey in 1792; D.D. from the University 
of Pennsylvania and Union College in 1804, and 
from the University of North Carolina in 1811, 
and LL.D. from Washington College, Maryland, 
in 1847. He published over forty political and 
religious pamphlets. He died in Princeton, N. J., 
January 7, 1850. 

Rev. John Neilson Abeel^ D.D., was born in 
New York city in 1769. His father, James Abeel, 

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was a major in the Revolutionary army, and served 
through the war as deputy quartermaster-general. 
The family descended from Christian Janse Abeel, 
who was born in Amsterdam in 1631, but came to 
this country and settled in Albany in 1657. Dr. 
Abeel's mother, from whom he derived his middle 
name, was the daughter of an Irish gentleman, 
John Neilson, M.D., who came from Belfast and 
practised his profession with success in this city. 
Dr. Abeel early in life was sent to school in Mor- 
ristown, 1ST. J., where he was fitted for college. He 
graduated from Princeton in 1787. He studied 
law in New Brunswick, in the office of the Hon. 
William Paterson, LL.D., who afterward be- 
came one of the Justices of the Supreme Court 
of the United States. Later he determined to 
abandon the law and study for the ministry. 
Accordingly, he entered his name as a student of 
theology in the Reformed Dutch Church. Soon 
afterward, however, he was induced to accept an 
appointment as a tutor in Princeton, and, while 
thus employed (1791-93), prosecuted his theologi- 
cal studies under the direction of Dr. Witherspoon, 
the president of the college. His license to preach 
was granted to him in April, 1793. Shortly after 
he entered in the service of the Second and Third 
Presbyterian churches in Philadelphia. He was 
called to the Collegiate Church at New York in 
June, 1795, to become one of its ministers. 
Here he continued to labor during the rest of his 
life, although he was frequently asked to go else- 
where. He took a lively interest in educational 

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matters, and in 1799 was elected a trustee of Co- 
lumbia College, and in 1808 a trustee of Queen's 
College, and once was called to the presidency of 
Union College. His degree of D.D. was conferred 
by Harvard College in 1804. Dr. Abeel married 
January 29, 1794, Mary Stille, in Philadelphia. 
She survived her husband a number of years, and 
died in New York, January 13, 1826, universally 
esteemed. They had five children, two of whom 
died in infancy. In 1809 Dr. Abeel's health began 
to fail, and he died January 19, 1812. 

Rev. John Mitchell Mason, D.D., was born 
in New York city, March 19, 1770; son of the Rev. 
John and Catherine (Van Wyck) Mason. He 
was prepared for college under his father; was 
graduated at Columbia in 1789; was a student in 
the University of Scotland, 1791-92, and was re- 
called to the United States by the death of his 
father in 1792. He was licensed by the Associate 
Reformed Presbytery of Pennsylvania, October 
18, 1792, and installed as pastor of the Cedar 
Street Church, New York city, as successor to his 
father, in April, 1793. He was married May 13, 
1793, to Ann, daughter of Abraham LefTerts, of 
New York city. He visited Scotland in 1801, to 
obtain competent evangelical ministers for duty in 
the United States, and in September, 1802, pro- 
posed a theological seminary, subject to the direc- 
tion of the Associate Reformed Church, which 
movement resulted in the Union Theological Sem- 
inary. He established the Christian Magazine in 

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January, 1807, and edited it for several years. He 
resigned his pastorate in 1810, formed a new con- 
gregation, and, while a new church was being built, 
held meetings in the Presbyterian church on Cedar 
Street. This action resulted in a charge being 
brought against him at the meeting of the synod in 
Philadelphia in 1811, but the synod refused to cen- 
sure him. He was a trustee of Columbia College, 
1795-1821, and provost, 1811-16; travelled in 
France, Italy, and Switzerland, 1816-17, and re- 
signed his pastoral duties in February, 1821, on 
account of his increasing infirmities. He was 
president of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., 
1821-24, and in 1822 transferred his relations from 
the Associate Reformed Church to the Presbytery 
of New York, and returned to New York city in 
1824. He received the degree of A.M. from 
the College of New Jersey in 1794, and that of 
D.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 
1804. Author of many essays, orations, and 
sermons. He died in New York city, December 
26, 1829. 

David Hosack, corresponding secretary, 1814- 
16; vice-president, 1817-18; president of the So- 
ciety, 1820-27; was born in New York city, August 
31, 1769; son of Alexander and Jane (Arden) 
Hosack. His father was a native of Moray 
County, Scotland, who came to America as an 
artillery officer, serving in the capture of Louis- 
burg in 1758. His maternal grandfather, Francis 
Arden, was a prominent citizen of New York 

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city. David was a student at Columbia College, 
1786-88, and was attacked by the " Doctor's Mob." 
He graduated at the College of New Jersey, 
1789, studied medicine with Drs. Post, Romeyn, 
Bard, Moore, and Kissam, and received his 
M.D. degree from the University of Pennsyl- 
vania in 1791, and from Edinburgh in 1793. He 
was married to Catharine Warner, of Princeton, 
N. J., in 1791. He practised medicine in Alexan- 
dria, Va., 1791-92; was a student at Edinburgh 
and London, 1792-94; and professor of botany, 
1795-1811, and of materia medica, 1796-1811, in 
Columbia College. He was married a second time, 
December 21, 1797, to Mary, daughter of James 
and Mary (Darragh) Eddy, of Philadelphia. He 
attended Alexander Hamilton in his duel with 
Aaron Burr in 1804. He established in 1822 a hos- 
pital, which afterward became Bellevue, and in 
1826 joined with Dr. Valentine Mott and Dr. John 
W. Francis in founding the medical department of 
Rutgers College, in which he was professor during 
its existence, 1826-30. He was president of the 
Horticultural, Literary and Philosophical socie- 
ties, and originated and in 1801 established the 
Elgin Botanic Garden, the second in the United 
States. He was married a third time, shortly be- 
fore he retired from practice, to Magdalina, widow 
of Henry A. Coster, a Holland merchant, and 
spent his summers on his estate at Hyde-Park-on- 
Hudson, N. Y., where he devoted himself to bo- 
tanical study. He was expert in the treatment of 
yellow fever. He received the honorary degree of 

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LL.D., from the College of New Jersey and from 
Union College in 1818. He was the author of 
many medical and scientific works. He died in 
New York city, December 22, 1835. 

Anthony Bleecker, second vice-president of 
the Society, 1820, was born in New York city 
in October, 1770; son of Anthony Lispenard 
Bleecker. His father owned a large estate in New 
York city. In 1791 he was graduated from Co- 
lumbia College, and subsequently was admitted to 
the bar. Preferring literary work to the practice 
of law, he became well known as a contributor of 
both prose and verse to current literature. He 
published the " Narrative of the Brig Commerce," 
which had a wide circulation. In 1810 he was 
elected a trustee of the New York Society Library, 
retaining the office until the year before his death, 
which occurred March 13, 1827. He was a mem- 
ber of the standing committee of the Society 1805- 
19 and 1821-27. 

Samuel Bayard was born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
January 11, 1767; the fourth son of John and 
Margaret (Hodge) Bayard. After his gradua- 
tion from Princeton College, in 1784, as valedic- 
torian, he studied law and established an excellent 
practice in his native city. He became interested 
and prominent in politics, and was made Clerk of 
the Supreme Court of the United States in 1791. 
From 1794 to 1798 he represented the United 
States Government in London, as its agent, to 
prosecute American claims before the admiralty 

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courts. Upon his return he practised law at New 
Rochelle, N. Y., receiving the appointment of Pre- 
siding Judge of Westchester County. From 1803 
to 1806 he resided and practised in New York city. 
He aided in the organization of the American 
Bible Society and the New Jersey Bible Society. 
He removed to Princeton, N. J., in 1806, and was 
a member of the House of Assembly. He died in 
Princeton, N. J., May 12, 1840. 

Peter Gerard Stuyvesant, great-great-grand- 
son of Governor Petrus Stuyvesant, was born in 
New York city, 1778; graduated at Columbia Col- 
lege, 1794; studied law and was admitted to the 
bar. He was elected president of the Society in 
1836, and served in that office until 1839. He died 
at Niagara Falls, N. Y., August 16, 1847. His 
residence, " Petersfield," was built before the rev- 
olution, and was situated on his father's " Bou- 
werie " farm. 

John Pintard,, founder of the Society, was 
born in New York city, May 18, 1759; son of John 
and Mary (Cannon) Pintard; grandson of John 
and Catharine (Carre) Pintard and of John Can- 
non (father of Le Grand Cannon, of Canada), 
and great-grandson of Anthony Pintard, a 
Huguenot, who settled at Shrewsbury in 1786, 
where he was a merchant and a justice of the peace. 
Both his grandfathers were prominent merchants. 
On the death of his parents, in 1760, John Pin- 
tard was adopted by his uncle, Louis Pintard, a 
New York merchant. He was prepared for col- 

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lege at Hempstead, L. L, and was graduated at 
the College of New Jersey, 1776. He was dep- 
uty commissary for the prisoners in New York city 
under his uncle, serving until 1781, and in 1782 be- 
came a clerk in his uncle's counting-room. He 
married, November 12, 1784, Eliza, daughter of 
Col. Abraham and Helena (Kortright) Brasher, of 
Paramus, N. J. Mr. Pintard engaged in the East 
India trade on his own account in 1785; was an 
assistant alderman in 1789-90, and represented the 
city in the State Assembly in the following year. 
He established a museum in 1791, in connection with 
the Tammany Society. He resided in New York 
city in 1800, and was engaged in the book trade and 
auction business. In the winter of 1801 he went 
to New Orleans, La., where he gathered valuable 
statistics relating to the territory, which contributed 
to its purchase. He edited the Daily Advertiser, 
1802; was Clerk to the Corporation of New York 
city, and City Inspector, 1804-09; secretary of the 
Mutual Insurance Company, 1809-29, and a di- 
rector of the same, 1829-44. He was secretary 
of the New York Chamber of Commerce, 1817-27; 
he was one of the incorporators of the first sav- 
ings bank that was established in New York city 
in 1819, and served as its president, 1828-41, when 
he became blind, and resigned. He was among the 
first, in 1805, to agitate the " free school system," 
and was influential in securing the construction of 
the Erie Canal. He was secretary, 1816-32, and 
vice-president, 1832-44, of the American Bible 
Society; a vestryman of the Huguenot church, 

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New York city, 1810-14; treasurer of Sailors' 
Snug Harbor, 1819-23; and one of the benefactors 
of the General Theological Seminary. Pintard 
Hall, one of the dormitories of the seminary, was 
erected in his honor in 1885. He received the de- 
gree LL.D. from Allegheny College in 1822. 

Mr. Pintard was recording secretary of the 
Society, 1805-19; librarian, 1810-11; treasurer, 
1819-27. 

At a meeting held October 12, 1816, the Society 
adopted the following preamble and resolution: 

" Whereas, The Historical Society of this State 
is most materially indebted to Mr. John Pintard 
for his long-continued, faithful, and important 
services ; 

" Resolved, That in testimony of their due con- 
sideration of the same, Mr. Pintard be requested 
to sit for his portrait for this Society." 

Mr. Pintard's portrait was painted for the 
Society by Trumbull, in 1817. 

Mr. Pintard died June 21, 1844. The Society, 
at its regular meeting held October 1, 1844, 
adopted the following resolution: 

" Resolved , That in the decease of John Pin- 
tard, LL.D., this Society has lost one of its earliest 
and most devoted friends, one of those, indeed, to 
whom the institution owes its origin, and much of 
its usefulness. 

" Resolved, That the memory of Mr. Pintard is 
cherished by the members of this Society, for the 
many excellent features of his private and public 
character." 

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Federal Hall, the first home of the Society, 
stood on the northeast corner of Wall and Nas- 
sau Streets, erected in 1700 as the second City 
Hall, succeeding the first City Hall, or Stadt 
Huys erected in 1642 on Pearl Street. 

In 1788 the Common Council resolved to appro- 
priate the whole of the City Hall to the uses of 
the General Government, and adopted a plan for 
the alteration of the building. 

The First Congress of the United States met 
in the reconstructed building on March 4, 1789, 
when on April 30th Washington was inaugurated 
first President of the United States. The cere- 
mony took place in the open gallery in front of 
the Senate-chamber, which looked out upon Broad 
Street. The Society held meetings in this building 
until 1809. It has in its custody a section of the 
iron railing of the balcony, also several chairs and 
desks used by the officers and members of the first 
Federal Congress. 

Unhappily, this historic building, the most sug- 
gestive monument of the events which took place 
within its old walls, already laden with the mem- 
ories of a century of occupation and use for pub- 
lic purposes, was heedlessly swept away a few 
years after it had been decorated by its greatest 
honor. The edifice was taken down in 1812. 

An address to the public, setting forth the 
objects of the institution, together with several 
queries as to those points on which the Society 
requested particular information, was printed in 
the newspapers of the day. The next publication 

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was its constitution and by-laws, contained in a 
pamphlet of fifteen pages, published in 1805. 
These subsequently were printed in the first vol- 
ume of collections of the Society. 

On April 13, 1807, the recording secretary 
stated that he had in his possession a considerable 
number of books relating to the history of Amer- 
ica, which he was willing to dispose of at the orig- 
inal cost; whereupon the following resolution was 
adopted : 

" Resolved , That the standing committee be 
authorized to purchase said books for the use of 
the Society." 

The liberal donations subsequently made, to- 
gether with other purchases, soon formed a credit- 
able library in the department of American his- 
tory. The prospects of the Society now began to 
brighten, numerous resident and honorary mem- 
bers were elected, and the patriotic objects of the 
institution rendered it deservedly popular. Appli- 
cation was made to the Legislature for an act of 
incorporation, which was passed February 10, 
1809. 

At the meeting held January 10, 1809, atten- 
tion was called to the fact that this year was the 
beginning of the third century since the discovery 
of this part of North America by Henry Hudson. 
It was then 

" Resolved,, That this Society will commemorate 
this important event, and that the Rev. Dr. Miller, 
corresponding secretary, be requested to prepare 
a discourse for the occasion." 

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A committee was appointed to examine and 
ascertain the exact date of this discovery, who 
subsequently reported " that the ' Journal of the 
Voyage of Henry Hudson,' contained in ' Pur- 
chas Pilgrim,' appeared to be the most authentic 
and satisfactory document on the subject; and that 
Captain Hudson, who sailed from Holland in the 
month of March, 1609, discovered and entered the 
river, since called by his name, on the fourth day 
of September following." 

That day was accordingly designated for the 
proposed celebration. The use of the front court- 
room in Federal Hall was granted to the Society 
for the occasion, where " the Rev. Dr. Miller de- 
livered a learned and interesting discourse, illus- 
trative of this event, before a large and respectable 
audience of ladies and gentlemen, among whom 
were his Excellency the Governor, and the Mayor 
and Corporation of the city." 

After the discourse, in the language of the 
minutes, " the Society adjourned to the City 
Hotel, where, together with a number of invited 
guests, (at four o'clock) they sat down to an ele- 
gant dinner prepared by Messrs. Pay and Gibson, 
consisting of a variety of shell and other fish with 
which our waters abound, wild pigeon and succo- 
tash, the favorite dish of the season (Indian corn 
and beans ) , with the different meats introduced 
into this country by the European settlers." 

The following commemorative toasts were 
drank on the occasion: 

1. Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of 

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America. His monument is not inscribed with his 
name, yet all nations shall recognize it. Its base 
covers half the globe, and its summit reaches 
beyond the clouds. 

2. Queen Isabella of Spain, the magnanimous 
and munificent friend and patroness of Columbus. 

3. John and Sebastian Cabot, the contempo- 
raries of Columbus, and the discoverers of North 
America. 

4. John Verrazzano. His enterprising genius 
and his visit about the 20th of April, 1524, to this 
part of our country deserve to be better known. 

5. Henry Hudson, the enterprising and intrepid 
navigator. Though disastrous his end, yet fortu- 
nate is his renown, for the majestic river which 
bears his name shall render it immortal. 

6. The 4th of September, 1609. The day on 
which Hudson landed on our shores. 

7. Wouter Van Twiller, the first Governor of 
New Netherlands. 

8. Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch Governor, 
an intrepid soldier and faithful officer. 

9. Richard Nicolls, the first English Governor 
of the Province of New York. 

10. George Clinton, the first Governor of the 
State of New York. 

11. William Smith, the historian of New 
York. 

12. Richard Hakluyt and Samuel Purchas. 
May future compilers of historical documents 
emulate their diligence and fidelity. 

13. William Stith, Cadwallader Colden, Samuel 

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Smith, Jeremy Belknap, and George R. Minot, 
American historians. They have merited the 
gratitude of their country. 

14. The United States of America. May our 
prosperity ever confirm the belief that the discov- 
ery of our country was a blessing to mankind. 

15. The State of New York. May it ever be 
the pleasing task of the historians to record events 
that shall evince the wisdom of her Legislature and 
display the virtues of her people. 

16. The Massachusetts Historical Society, 
which set the honorable example of collecting and 
preserving what relates to the history of our 
country. 

17. Our forefathers, to whose enterprise and 
fortitude, under Providence, we owe the blessings 
we enjoy. 

Among the volunteer toasts given were the 
following, after his Excellency the Governor and 
the Mayor had retired : 

By Mr. William Johnson, chairman: The Gov- 
ernor of the State of New York. 

By Mr. John Pintard: The Mayor and Cor- 
poration of the City of New York. 

By Dr. Samuel L. Mitchill: A speedy termina- 
tion of our foreign relations. 

By Col. Jonathan Williams, United States En- 
gineers: May our knowledge of past times teach 
us to enjoy the present and improve the future. 

By Simeon De Witt, Surveyor General: May 
our successors, a century hence, celebrate the same 
event which we this day commemorate. 

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By Dr. David Hosack, Professor of Botany, 
Columbia College: The memory of St. Nicholas. 
May the virtuous habits and simple manners of 
our Dutch ancestors be not lost in the luxuries and 
refinements of the present times. 

By Mr. Nathaniel Pendleton: May the same 
virtues and the same industry continue in our land 
which have converted an Indian cornfield into a 
botanic garden. 

By Mr. Anthony Bleecker: The Memory of 
General Washington. 

By Mr. Josiah Ogden Hoffman: Egbert Ben- 
son, our absent and respected president. 

By Dr. John Bullus, agent United States 
Navy: The Lieutenant-Governor (John Broome) 
of the State of New York. 

By Dr. Archibald Bruce, Professor of Mineral- 
ogy, College of Physicians: The Rev. Dr. Miller. 
His interesting discourse of to-day affords a pleas- 
ing anticipation of his promised history of New 
York. 

By Col. Peter Curtenius, of the New York 
Artillery: Pierre Van Cortlandt, the first Lieuten- 
ant-Governor of the State of New York. 

By Mr. Henry Gahn, the Swedish Consul: The 
Mouth of the Hudson. May it soon have a sharp 
set of teeth, to show its defense. 

By the Recording Secretary: The American 
Fair, without whose endearing society this west- 
ern world, the rich inheritance from our enter- 
prising ancestors, would still be a wilderness in- 
deed. 

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The publication of the first volume of its col- 
lections is distinctly due to the enthusiasm pro- 
duced by this generous banquet. A committee was 
appointed, after the delivery of the discourse, " to 
report materials for forming a volume of the pro- 
ceedings of this Society, together with such tracts 
relating to the history of this country as may merit 
republication." 

The anniversary meetings of the Society were 
held on St. Nicholas Day, December 6th. The 
customary place of dining on these occasions was 
for several years at Kent's Hotel, 42 Broad Street. 

A communication was received from the Acad- 
emy of Arts, September 9, 1809, inviting the 
Society to occupy a room in the Government 
House. The invitation was promptly accepted, 
and on September 15th the first meeting was held 
there. The northwest room in the second story of 
that building was appropriated to the use of the 
Society. The books, which had been previously 
kept in the City Library, were removed to the same 
place. 

The Government House, at the foot of Broad- 
way, facing Bowling Green, stood on the site of 
Fort Amsterdam, which after the conquest was 
called Fort James, in compliment to the Duke of 
York; in the reign of William and Mary, Fort 
William; and in the following reigns, Fort Anne 
and Fort George. The Government House was 
originally designed for the residence of Washing- 
ton, then President of the United States, but as the 
capital removed to Philadelphia, the house was 

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never occupied by him. It then became the Gov- 
ernment House, and was the residence of Governor 
George Clinton and John Jay, and from 1799 to 
1815 used for the Custom-House, when it was 
taken down and succeeded by a handsome block of 
houses. The new Custom-House is now in course 
of erection on this site. 

In March, 1810, a petition of the Society, signed 
by Egbert Benson, president, praying that the 
Legislature would grant them such aid as they 
should deem meet and the general interest of the 
State would permit, to accomplish the objects for 
which the Society was associated and incorporated, 
was presented to the Legislature of New York. 
The following letters from De Witt Clinton 
and Dr. Mitchell, members of the Senate and 
Assembly respectively, show the action of that 
body: 

Albany, March 22, 1810. 

Dear Sir: I have the pleasure of informing you 
that the bill for endowing the Historical Society, 
and killing the wolves and panthers, passed the 
the Senate this morning without opposition. If 
the Federal Assembly shall act as liberally as the 
Republican Senate, it will go down, but I am fear- 
ful that your party will be very deficient in this 
respect. 

The Mechanics' Bank bill has passed the Senate 
with equal unanimity. 

I am, dear sir, yours sincerely, 

De Witt Clinton. 
John Pintard, Esq. 

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Albany, April 3, 1810. 

Dear Sir: I have the mortification to inform 
you that the bill from the Senate for the destruc- 
tion of wild beasts, and for the encouragement of 
history, was this day debated and finally rejected. 
The vote, in spite of all that the friends of the pro- 
jects could say, was 43 to 27. I supported it with 
as good a speech as I could make. But all was 
in vain. The great objection was that too many 
lottery jobs had been authorized already, and 
under this influence the thing would not work. 
Van Home made the motion to reject. He ought 
to be conveyed to his native town in a car drawn 
by wolves, panthers, and wild-cats. 

The public business has rendered it necessary to 
prolong the session from the 2d instant, as orig- 
inally agreed upon for the adjournment to Thurs- 
day, the 5th. On Saturday I hope to move home- 
ward in the steamboat. 

Truly yours, as ever, 

S. L. Mitchill. 

John Pintard, in a letter dated August 28, 1812, 
addressed to the Hon. De Witt Clinton, Mayor of 
the City of New York, formulated a plan to com- 
bine in one building, if possible, with the pat- 
ronage of the city, the Academy of Arts, City 
Library, Historical Society, and the American Mu- 
seum, with some other institutions that ought to 
be established and promoted, with all that at pres- 
ent exists in this city relating to these subjects, 

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and that by concentrating all our resources we may 
give a greater impulse and elevation to our intellec- 
tual character, and suggested that either the Alms- 
house, or Bridewell, in the Park, would be suitable 
buildings for the purpose. 

This letter has the following endorsement: 

" Memo. Mr. Clinton, on reading this communi- 
cation, observed ' that the request was too impu- 
dent to be submitted to the Corporation! ' 

" Never Despair " was the motto used by Mr. 
Pintard on his book-plate. 

He did not despair, for on December 7th of the 
same year the Society, in conjunction with the 
New York Society Library and the Academy of 
Arts, petitioned the Corporation of the city for 
the use of the Almshouse, or the Bridewell, for the 
use of the above institutions, and other scientific 
institutions to be established in this city. Three 
years later the city authorities set apart the Alms- 
house for the use of the several institutions, the 
name of the building being changed to the New 
York Institution. 

The Rev. Dr. Timothy Alden (later President 
of Meadville College, Pa. ) , happening to be on a 
visit to this city, January 11, 1813, offered his ser- 
vices for the preparation of a catalogue, which the 
Society accepted. The catalogue was printed De- 
cember 22, 1813, at first separately, and subse- 
quently in the second volume of the collections of 
the Society. 

The catalogue shows that the library consisted 
at that time of 4,265 titles of books and pamphlets ; 

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234 volumes of United States documents ; 130 titles 
of American newspapers; 134 maps and charts; 30 
miscellaneous views; 119 almanacs; a portion of 
" Sterling Papers," with 48 separate manuscripts; 
16 manuscript volumes of the House of Commons, 
1650-76; several portraits in oil, and 38 engraved 
portraits — quite a collection brought together in 
the nine years of the existence of the Society. 

On January 11, 1814, it was " Resolved, that 
application be made to the Legislature of this 
State for their patronage of this Society, and that 
Mr. Clinton be appointed to draft a suitable me- 
morial on the subject." 

At the next quarterly meeting, held April 12th, 
Mr. Clinton informed the Society that, agreeably 
to their request at the last meeting, he had drawn 
up a memorial to the Legislature of this State for 
their patronage, which he presented at the present 
sessions of both Houses. That a clause granting 
this Society $12,000, which was included in the 
bill, entitled " An Act for instituting a Lottery 
for the promotion of Literature," had passed the 
Senate, but was non-concurred in in the House of 
Assembly. Ayes, 41; nays, 44. 

This act became a law on April 15, 1814. The 
following is an abstract of the same: 

" Section 51. And be it further enacted, That 
the managers to be appointed in compliance with 
the act, entitled ' An Act instituting a Lottery for 
the promotion of Literature, and for other pur- 
poses,' after the payments are completed, accord- 
ing to the several provisions contained in said act, 

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be and hereby are directed to raise the additional 
sum of twelve thousand dollars in the manner 
directed in and by the aforesaid act, which sum, 
when so raised, shall be paid to the Historical 
Society in the city of New York, for the purpose 
of procuring books, manuscripts, and other ma- 
terials, to illustrate the natural, literary, civil, and 
ecclesiastical history of America." 

The Society unfortunately engaged its credit in 
the purchase of books and of manuscripts before 
it was known how distant and precarious were the 
proceeds of this mode of raising money. It thus 
became involved in a debt which was not extin- 
guished without many and severe sacrifices. It 
had, however, before its usefulness was impeded by 
the pressure of this debt, published several vol- 
umes of transactions of great value. 

The debt incurred by the Society in anticipation 
of the funds to be received from this lottery 
amounted to several thousand dollars, and was 
chiefly assumed by the librarian, Dr. John W. 
Francis, to whom a mortgage on the property of 
the Society was executed by way of security. At 
length, after a long-continued struggle with pecu- 
niary embarrassments and difficulties, an arrange- 
ment was entered into with Union College, by 
which the Society agreed to take eight thousand 
dollars in cash for its lottery interest, out of which 
sum, in 1823, the debts were paid. 

Many valuable additions were made during the 
time that Dr. Francis officiated as librarian. 
Among the original papers, the military corre- 

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spondence of Gen. Horatio Gates was secured, 
July, 1816, through the influence of the celebrated 
Robert Fulton, then a resident member of the 
Society. The papers had been bequeathed by 
General Gates to Joel Barlow, who contemplated 
writing a history of the Revolution; but on the 
death of Barlow, in Europe, his widow had been 
induced by Mr. Fulton to transfer them to the 
Society. 

A special meeting of the Society was called 
August 13, 1814, in consequence of the ex- 
posed situation of this city to invasion by the 
enemy, and the danger attending a state of siege 
and possible bombardment. 

The Society, taking the matter into serious con- 
sideration, 

" Resolved, That the library of this Society be 
packed up in suitable boxes, ready to be removed 
and sent to some secure place up the Hudson 
River in case of necessity, and that Dr. Mitchill, 
Dr. Francis, and the Rev. Mr. Alden be a com- 
mittee to carry this resolution into effect." 

On January 14, 1815, Dr. Francis reported 
" that, in conformity with the resolution passed at 
the last meeting of the Society, the committee had 
caused all the most valuable and scarce books in 
the library to be carefully packed in portable cases. 
But that, happily, the campaign of 1814 had 
passed by without a necessity for removing them 
from the dangers of an hostile attack on this city. 
As, however, a similar cause may exist should the 
war between the United States and Great Britain 

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EGBERT BENSON 

1805 1*15 



PETER GERARD STUYVESANT 
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GOUVERNEUR MORRIS 



PETER AUGUSTUS JA\ 

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De WITT CLINTON 

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ALBERT GALLATIN 

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PRESIDENTS 



continue, it was recommended to leave the books 
packed up ready for removal in case of emer- 
gency." 

On June 15, 1815, Mr. Pintard reported that 
" the Corporation of the city, on May 22d last, had 
appropriated the Almshouse, in rear of the City 
Hall, when no longer required for public use, to 
the several literary and scientific societies which 
had petitioned for their patronage. That the new 
almshouse established at Bellevue would be com- 
pleted for the reception of the tenants of the pres- 
ent almshouse in the course of this year. 

" And, further, that as the Corporation had 
resolved to sell the Government House and ground 
thereto belonging, the fee-simple of which had been 
purchased from the State, it is necessary to remove 
the library of the Society to some place until pos- 
session can be obtained of the apartments to be 
allotted to the Society in the New York Institu- 
tion, formerly the Almshouse. The library of the 
Society was temporarily stored in the store of 
Capt. James Farquhar, in Vesey Street, together 
with the pictures, casts, busts, etc., belonging to 
the Academy of Arts, until their removal in 1816 
to the New York Institution." 

The Hon. Gouverneur Morris, who had been 
vice-president, 1810-15, was elected president of 
the Society, at the annual meeting held January 
9, 1816. 

At a meeting held July 30, 1816, the following 
resolution was adopted: 

" Resolved, That the Society commemorate the 

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discovery of this part of the Continent of North 
America by Hudson in 1609, on Wednesday, the 
fourth day of September next, being the 207th 
anniversary of this memorable event. And that the 
inauguration of the Hon. Gouverneur Morris, 
president-elect of this Society, take place on that 
day, at twelve o'clock, and that suitable accom- 
modations be provided for the ladies who may 
honor the Society with their presence on that 
occasion." 

Through the courtesy of Mayor RadclifF the 
Society assembled at eleven o'clock on September 
4th in the Sessions Court-Room in the City Hall, 
where the formal inauguration of Mr. Morris as 
president of the Society took place. 

Gouverneur Morris, statesman and orator, was 
born in Morrisania, January 31, 1752; died there, 
November 6, 1816; graduate of Kings College 
(now Columbia), 1768; member of Continental 
Congress, 1777-80; United States Minister to 
France, 1792-94; he succeeded in 1810 the Hon. 
Brockholst Livingston as vice-president of the 
Society. 

The Society, on November 12, 1816, adopted 
the following resolution on the death of Mr. 
Morris : 

" Resolved, That, as a tribute of respect to the 
memory of the Hon. Gouverneur Morris, de- 
ceased, late president of the Society, the members 
wear the accustomed badge of mourning for thirty 
days." 

The Society met for the first time in the New 

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York Institution, late Almshouse, July 9, 1816, 
occupying two rooms adjoining each other, on the 
first floor, on the southerly side of the building, 
and on the easterly side of the middle entry, with 
same accommodation in the basement. The prem- 
ises were leased to the Society by the Corporation 
of the city for a term of ten years dating from 
April 1, 1815, at a yearly rent of one peppercorn, 
" if lawfully demanded." The other occupants of 
the building were the Literary and Philosophical 
Society, the American Academy of Fine Arts, the 
Lyceum of Natural History, and Scudder's Amer- 
ican Museum. The edifice was erected in 1795, 
and was 260 feet long by 44 broad, with two pro- 
jections in front, 15 by 20 feet each, and was com- 
posed of brick, three stories high, with a basement, 
and with no claim to beauty. 

Owing to the fact that the New York Society 
Library had decided not to occupy rooms allotted 
to them in the New York Institution, by the Cor- 
poration of the city, the Historical Society re- 
quested from the Corporation of the city these ad- 
ditional rooms, for the establishment of a minera- 
logical cabinet and other purposes. This request 
was granted, and two southerly rooms on the west 
side of the middle entry, opposite to the rooms 
already occupied by them, were set apart. It was 
made a condition that the Society also accommodate 
the American Bible Society with the use of a room 
for their meetings. 

Dr. Mitchill, De Witt Clinton, and Col. George 
Gibbs were among the most zealous amateurs of 

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natural science. Col. Gibbs, who was chairman of 
the mineralogical committee, was particularly ac- 
tive in promoting the collection of minerals and 
specimens of natural history. A series of lectures 
was established February 11, 1817, on zoology, 
geology, vegetable physiology, mineralogy, chem- 
istry, and philosophy. The growth of this depart- 
ment became so large, and predominated over the 
real purposes of the Society to such an extent that 
in 1829 it was decided to present the collection to 
the Lyceum of Natural History, organized Feb- 
ruary 24, 1817, for the exclusive pursuit of those 
branches of science. 

The Hon. De Witt Clinton, vice-president of the 
Society, 1810-16, succeeded the late Gouverneur 
Morris as third president of the Society, January 
14, 1817. 

The Chamber of Commerce of New York, at a 
meeting held November 7, 1769, had requested its 
president to ask David Rittenhouse and Capt. 
John Montressor to take the latitude of the south- 
west bastion of Fort George. At a meeting of 
this Society, held June 10, 1817, an abstract of 
these minutes of the Chamber was read by Mr. 
Pintard (then secretary of the Chamber). On 
motion, John Pintard, Dr. John Griscom, and Dr. 
Samuel L. Mitchill were appointed a committee to 
prepare a memorial to the Common Council, for 
the erection of a monument to mark the site. The 
Common Council reported in favor of the Society's 
memorial, and in the following year erected a block 
of white marble, properly inscribed, on the site of 

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the southwest bastion. On July 30, 1905, this relic 
was unearthed by laborers in the subway excava- 
tion in Battery Park. The Society has secured the 
custody of the monument, with a view to its re- 
erection in the near future. The original inscrip- 
tion for the monument, as proposed in 1817, is in 
the archives of the Society. 

An extensive and valuable cabinet of coins and 
medals was presented to the Society, July 14, 1818, 
by the heirs of Rev. Dr. John C. Kunze, pastor of 
the Lutheran Church in Frankfort Street, 1784- 
1807. This collection was stolen from the Society 
a few years after its reception, nothing remaining 
but the cabinet which held the coins and medals. 

Dr. David Hosack, corresponding secretary, 
1814-16, and vice-president, 1817-18, became the 
fourth president on the retirement of De Witt 
Clinton, January 11, 1820. He was one of the 
eleven who met to organize the Society, Novem- 
ber 20, 1804. 

Owing to the prevalence of yellow fever, no 
meetings of the Society were held during the 
months of August, September, and October, 1822. 

General Lafayette and his son, George Wash- 
ington Lafayette, were elected honorary members, 
August 18, 1824, and at a special meeting held the 
following day a reception was tendered to these 
gentlemen. Addresses were made by the president, 
Dr. Hosack, and General Lafayette. The Society 
has two portraits of Lafayette, one painted in 
France, and presented to the Society by Gen. 
Ebenezer Stevens, October 7, 1817. Also the por- 

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trait painted from life in 1825, by Ingham, and 
is the original head from which was made the full- 
length portrait for the State, presented to the So- 
ciety by the artist. 

A communication was read at the meeting De- 
cember 14, 1824, from James Renwick and William 
Gracie, a committee appointed by the Associates 
of the New York Athenaeum for the purpose of 
conferring with the Historical Society, the Society 
Library, and the Trustees of Columbia College on 
the subject of a union of their several interests (in 
such a way as to form one great public library), 
requesting this matter to be brought before the 
Society with the view to the appointment of a com- 
mittee of conference in its behalf. A committee 
was appointed, consisting of Dr. Hosack, chair- 
man, and Anthony Bleecker and Colonel Stone. 

At a meeting held February 8, 1825, Mr. 
Bleecker informed the Society that " the above- 
mentioned committee had met the committee of the 
other institutions, and that a project is contem- 
plated to be laid before the several institutions for 
the purpose of effecting this union." This attempt 
of consolidation of the various institutions was not 
successful. 

Notwithstanding the liberal grant of the Legis- 
lature, the Society became again seriously embar- 
rassed by debt, and so desperate was its condition 
regarded, that at a meeting held April 12, 1825, 
on motion of Dr. De Kay, seconded by the Rev. 
Mr. Jones, it was 

" Resolved j That it is expedient that a committee 

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of members be appointed to endeavor to extricate 
this Society from its present embarrassments, with 
full powers to bargain, sell, and convey (either in 
whole or in part, as circumstances may require) 
the property belonging to the Society (except 
donations), and to use any other means which they 
may deem proper for the obtaining of that object." 

At a special meeting held on Saturday, April 
16, to take action on the above resolution, the 
following committee was appointed: Dr. De Kay, 
Rev. Cave Jones, Anthony Bleecker, William 
Gracie, Benjamin Haight. 

The committee reported, May 28, that the 
whole debt of the Society amounted to $7,500. To 
pay off this debt, the committee made arrange- 
ments for the sale, in whole or in part, of the 
library. Many offers were received, among them 
one from Mr. Isaac S. Hone, making an offer to 
purchase the library, with the intention of present- 
ing it to the New York Athenaeum. 

This offer led to serious results. The commit- 
tee did not consider they had authority to sell the 
whole library, and therefore called a meeting of 
the Society to obtain further power. 

A resolution ordering the sale of the property 
of the Society was adopted at the June 14, 1825, 
meeting by a vote of ten to six. Previous to the 
question being taken on the resolution, Dr. Hosack, 
the president, tendered his resignation, and Colonel 
Trumbull took the chair. After the question on 
the resolution was acted on, Colonel Trumbull also 
tendered his resignation of the office of second vice- 

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president, and, together with Dr. Hosack, with- 
drew. Dr. De Kay and Mr. Gracie resigned 
as members of the committee; Mr. Frederic de 
Peyster and Mr. Joseph Blunt were appointed to 
the vacancies. This was the last meeting of the 
Society until March 14, 1826, when, according to 
the minutes, Dr. Hosack presided, and Colonel 
Trumbull was recorded as present as vice-presi- 
dent. Evidently the Society had taken no action 
on the resignations of these gentlemen as president 
and vice-president. 

On January 13, 1827, a memorial setting forth 
the financial difficulties of the Society was sub- 
mitted, and Mr. Frederic de Peyster was requested 
to present it at Albany. Mr. de Peyster accord- 
ingly repaired to Albany during the session of 
1827, and, with the aid of Governor Clinton, suc- 
ceeded in obtaining a grant of five thousand dol- 
lars, on condition that the debts of the Society 
should be so reduced as to render that sum sufficient 
to liquidate them altogether. This liberal donation 
was received in April, 1828, and, upon the nom- 
ination of Mr. de Peyster, the members of that 
Legislature were elected honorary members of the 
Society. 

Another attempt to house all the literary and 
scientific societies in the city in one building was 
made at a public meeting held in the Common 
Council Chamber, May 17, 1827. 

It was proposed to apply to the Corporation of 
the city for a lease for ninety-nine years of the 
building known as the New York Institution, City 

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Hall Park, to be appropriated for the accommoda- 
tion of the New York Historical Society, the New 
York Horticultural Society, the Literary and 
Philosophical Society, the American Academy of 
Fine Arts, the New York Lyceum, the New York 
Athenaeum, the New York Society Library, and 
the Law Library Association. 

This plan was abandoned, the anticipated aid 
not having been obtained, and small encourage- 
ment being held out to those directly interested in 
the measure suggested for carrying out fully and 
appropriately a design so important to the various 
institutions throughout the city and to the public 
at large. 

On January 15, 1828, the Hon. James Kent, 
LL.D., succeeded Dr. Hosack as the fifth presi- 
dent of the Society. 

James Kent, jurist, was born in Doanesburgh, 
N. Y., July 31, 1763; died in this city, December 
12, 1847; graduated at Yale College, 1781; studied 
law with Egbert Benson; admitted to the bar, 
1785; member of Assembly, 1791-93 and 1796; 
Professor of Law in Columbia College, 1793; 
Recorder of this city, 1797; Judge of Supreme 
Court, 1798; Chief Justice, July, 1804; and Chan- 
cellor, 1814-23; author of "Commentaries on the 
United States Constitution," and a treatise on the 
city charter and the powers of the municipal offi- 
cers. He was not only an eminent jurist, but was 
one of the first legal writers of his time. His anni- 
versary address before the Society, December 6, 
1828, was published in 1829. 

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Three volumes of collections had already been 
published; a fourth was added in 1828, contain- 
ing a continuation of Smith's " History of New 
York " to the year 1762, from the original manu- 
script of the author, presented for the purpose by 
his son, William Smith, of Quebec. The first vol- 
ume, extending to 1732, was printed in London in 
1757. The Society, in 1829, reprinted both vol- 
umes in a uniform edition, under the supervision 
of Dr. Francis, John Delafield, and Dr. Hosack. 
A memoir of the author, written by his son, was 
prefixed to this edition. 

The publications of the Society at this period 
were numerous. Among them may be mentioned 
the catalogue of the library, memorials to the 
Legislature with accompanying documents, Dr. 
Hosack's memoir of Hugh Williamson, delivered 
before the Society, and the annual addresses of 
Chancellor Kent, William Sampson, Joseph Blunt, 
and William Beach Lawrence. The discourse of 
the venerable Egbert Benson, the first president of 
the Society, delivered in 1816, was printed at his 
own expense. This circumstance arose from objec- 
tions having been made to certain portions of the 
discourse by individuals who were desirous they 
should be omitted if published by the Society. At 
these suggestions Judge Benson took offence, as 
appears from some remarks relating to the subject 
published with the memoir. He printed a new 
edition, with copious notes, in 1825, at Jamaica, 
Long Island. Judge Benson's discourse is a re- 
markable production, both as to matter and style. 

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It professedly treats of local names in this State, 
whether of Indian or European origin. 

In 1829 the Corporation of the city notified the 
Society that the rooms occupied by them were 
needed for the use of the city. Notwithstand- 
ing this notice, the Society received an extension 
of time, and did not remove until three years 
later. 

At the annual meeting, January 10, 1832, the 
Hon. Morgan Lewis was elected the sixth presi- 
dent of the Society. 

Morgan Lewis, son of Francis Lewis, signer of 
the Declaration of Independence, born in New 
York, October 16, 1754; died there, April 7, 1844; 
graduate of the College of New Jersey, 1773; 
He studied law in the office of John Jay; was 
Major of the Second Regiment New York City 
Militia, Col. John Jay, November 3, 1775; Colonel 
and Deputy Quartermaster- General in the North- 
ern Department of the Continental Army, Sep- 
tember 12, 1776, to the close of the war of the 
American Revolution. Admitted to the bar after 
the war, he practised in Dutchess County; member 
of Assembly 1789-90 and 1792; Attorney-General 
of the State, 1791 ; Judge of Supreme Court, 1792 ; 
Chief Justice in 1801 ; Governor of the State, 
1804-07, State Senator 1811-14; Major-General in 
the War of 1812. 

In this year the Society received its first legacy, 
amounting to $300, a bequest of Isaiah Thomas, 
journalist and author, and founder of the Amer- 
ican Antiquarian Society of Worcester, Mass., who 

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died April 4, 1831. The principal is still held 
intact, and is known as the " Isaiah Thomas Fund." 

Having occupied rooms in the New York Insti- 
tution sixteen years by a gratuitous lease from the 
city, on April 19, 1832, the Society took possession 
of the third floor of the new building erected by 
Peter Remsen, and known as the Remsen Build- 
ing, at the southwest corner of Broadway and 
Chambers Street. On this occasion a discourse 
was delivered by William Beach Lawrence. This 
change of location proved unfavorable to the in- 
terests of the Society. The rent of the hall, and 
other expenditures, led to the creation of a new 
debt. The treasurer, John Delafield, generously 
assumed full responsibility for the amount. 

During the period July, 1833, to December, 
1835, inclusive, no minutes of the meetings are 
preserved. 

Peter Gerard Stuyvesant was elected the seventh 
president of the Society, at an annual meeting held 
in the Remsen Building, January 3, 1836. Mr. 
Stuyvesant was the great-great-grandson of Gov- 
ernor Petrus Stuyvesant; was born in 1778; died 
August 16, 1847. Mr. Stuyvesant was one of the 
original eleven who met on November 20, 1804, to 
organize the Society. 

Measures were now taken for relieving the 
Society from its embarrassments. The treasurer 
was authorized to raise one thousand dollars on the 
credit of the institution, and a committee was ap- 
pointed to select a new location. Several offers 
were made at this period, by different public insti- 

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tutions, for the gratuitous accommodation of the 
Society; among them was the Stuyvesant Institute, 
an association for literary purposes, by whom a 
building had been erected at 659 Broadway, oppo- 
site Bond Street, September 1, 1837. The offer 
was accepted. In the summer of 1837 the Society 
removed to its new quarters, with a generous lease 
of two spacious rooms for the term of ten years. 

Active measures were now taken to restore the 
prosperity of the Society. A public course of his- 
torical lectures was determined upon, which was 
commenced in January, 1838, by a brilliant dis- 
course by the Rev. Dr. Francis L. Hawks, before 
a crowded assemblage in the spacious lecture-room 
of the Stuyvesant Institute. This was followed by 
a series of lectures, chiefly from members of the 
Society, which was fully attended. The pecuniary 
proceeds of this course of lectures sufficed to extin- 
guish the debts of the Society. 

At the meeting held April 10, 1838, a resolution 
was adopted by the Society to memorialize the 
Legislature on the subject of collecting materials 
in Europe illustrative of the history of New York. 
The memorial was approved at the meeting held 
January 8, 1839, presented to the Legislature 
the same month, and forwarded to that body by 
a special message from Governor Seward on 
February 5th following. It was adopted with 
great unanimity. John Romeyn Brodhead was 
appointed by the Governor and Senate the agent 
of the State under the act passed. As a result of 
his labors abroad, the State has published ten large 

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folio volumes and index, of the highest importance 
not only to the student, but to the public at large. 
Besides this attention to the views of the Society, 
the Legislature, in compliance with another recom- 
mendation, ordered the publication of the journals 
of the New York Provincial Congress and Con- 
vention, together with the proceedings of the Com- 
mittee of Safety, from May, 1775, to the adoption 
of the State Constitution. 

The semi-centennial anniversary of the first in- 
auguration of George Washington was celebrated 
by the Society, April 30, 1839. The Hon. John 
Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United 
States, was selected as the orator. Mr. Adams 
arrived in town from Washington on Monday, 
April 29th, and in the evening met a large num- 
ber of the members of the Society at its rooms. 
From thence the company repaired by invitation 
to the residence of Mr. Stuyvesant, president of 
the Society, where a sumptuous entertainment was 
provided for the occasion. 

On Tuesday, at eleven o'clock a.m., the Society 
with their guests assembled at the City Hotel, 
where a large number of citizens joined them in 
paying their personal respects to the venerable ora- 
tor of the day, and to the Revolutionary veterans, 
who, disregarding the infirmities of age, had once 
more rallied in honor of their beloved chief. 

At twelve o'clock the company moved in pro- 
cession to the Middle Dutch Church, where an im- 
mense concourse of people was assembled. A 
temporary stage was erected in front of the pulpit 

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for the convenience of the guests. Peter G. Stuy- 
vesant presided. The exercises were opened by 
prayer by the Rev. Dr. John Knox, associate pas- 
tor of the Collegiate Dutch Church, followed by 
an ode written for the occasion by William Cullen 
Bryant. 

The address of Mr. Adams, entitled " The 
Jubilee of the Constitution," by the extraordinary 
ability, learning, and eloquence which it displayed, 
fully sustained the most sanguine anticipations of 
the friends of the distinguished orator. The ex- 
ercises were concluded with a prayer and benedic- 
tion by the Rev. Dr. Jonathan M. Wainwright, of 
Trinity Church. 

At six o'clock p.m. the company reassembled at 
the City Hotel, and about two hundred persons sat 
down to a dinner prepared in the best style of that 
well-known establishment. Thirteen regular and 
twenty-one volunteer toasts were tendered, and 
two odes by Grenville Mellen and William Cutter 
were read by the authors. 

In the course of the evening a fine transparency 
representing old Federal Hall, formerly standing 
on the corner of Wall and Nassau Streets, the 
scene of Washington's inauguration, was disclosed 
by the withdrawal of a curtain at the upper end 
of the hall, and produced a brilliant effect. The 
figures of Washington and Chancellor Livingston 
were seen in the balcony, the one laying his hand 
upon the book, while the other administered the 
oath of office. 

On the approach of the centennial of the same 

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event, the Executive Committee was directed to 
formulate a plan for a suitable celebration of the 
occasion. This action on the part of the Society 
was followed by similar action on the part of the 
Chamber of Commerce and the Society of the 
Sons of the Revolution. The final result was the 
appointment of a citizens' committee, who took 
charge of the whole affair. 

Peter Augustus Jay, LL.D., succeeded Mr. 
Stuyvesant, as the eighth president of the Society, 
January 14, 1840. Mr. Jay was born in Eliza- 
bethtown, N. J., January 24, 1776, and was the 
eldest son of John Jay, the statesman. He was 
graduated from Columbia College in 1794, and 
accompanied his father to England, acting as his 
private secretary. On his return to New York he 
studied law, attaining great distinction soon after 
his admission to the bar. He was a member of the 
State Assembly in 1816; Recorder of New York, 
1819-20. He presented to the Society many books 
and publications of the colonial period. Mr. Jay 
died in this city February 20, 1843. 

The Society was again forced to move, in con- 
sequence of the sale of the Stuyvesant Institute 
under a foreclosure of a mortgage. In this emer- 
gency Mr. Peter G. Stuyvesant offered to con- 
vey to the Society two lots of ground fronting on 
Stuyvesant Street, 40 by 70 feet, on condition that 
the lots be held in perpetuity by the Society, and 
that the amount of $18,000 be raised by the Society 
on or before May 1, 1841, for the erection of a 
building on the site offered. It was deemed in- 

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expedient, however, to attempt to raise the amount 
of money required for this object. 

In the meantime a liberal proposal from the 
New York University was accepted. On April 6, 
1841, the Committee on New Location reported 
that accommodations could be obtained in the New 
York University on the following terms. 

" The library to be placed in the room occupied 
by the University library, second floor above the 
basement and on the same floor with the chapel. 
The standard books of the University to remain 
in a case to be provided by the University. 

The gallery above to contain the cabinet and 
museum of the Historical Society and of the Uni- 
versity, and such books and pamphlets as the two 
librarians might think proper. 

All books of each library to be open to the 
University and the Historical Society, under reg- 
ulations to be adopted by the librarians, under the 
advice of their several committees. 

The expense of placing the library in the 
building to be borne by the Society. The ex- 
pense of lighting, fuel, servants' hire, etc., to 
be equally divided between the University and the 
Society. 

The salary of the assistant librarian, including 
any charges for necessary assistance, to be equally 
divided ; and in the settlement of the yearly account 
for such expenses, one hundred dollars to be al- 
lowed to the University. 

The large or the small chapel to be used for 
lectures by the Society on the most liberal terms 

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which the University could afford to any associa- 
tion or individual." 

The Society, on May 22, 1841, accepted the 
liberal offer of the New York University, and a 
committee was appointed to complete the arrange- 
ments. 

On October 5th following the Society held its 
first meeting in the rooms of the University. At 
this meeting a communication from the Secretary 
of the Board of Trustees of the New York So- 
ciety Library, dated May 12, 1841, was read, 
enclosing the following resolutions of that body: 

" Resolved, That it appears inexpedient to this 
Board to make arrangements with the Historical 
Society according to the terms contained in the 
report of the committee, submitted to this Board 
on the 19th of April last. 

" Resolved, That this Board would have no 
objection to a union of the New York Society 
Library with the Historical Society, upon such 
terms of equality as would best promote the 
interests of both institutions and the cause of 
literature. 

" It having been suggested that the Historical 
Society may speedily require different apartments 
from those which they now occupy, 

" Resolved, That the use of one of the basement 
stores be tendered to the Historical Society for the 
deposit of their property until they can obtain 
suitable accommodations." 

A vote of thanks was tendered to the New York 
Society Library for their offer of the use of their 

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basement store, and the offer was respectfully de- 
clined. 

At the annual meeting of the Society for the 
election of officers, January 3, 1843, it was an- 
nounced that the Hon. Peter Augustus Jay 
declined a reelection to the office of President. 
The vacancy was filled by the election of the Hon. 
Albert Gallatin, LL.D., as the ninth president. 

Mr. Gallatin was born in Geneva, Switzer- 
land, January 29, 1761, and died at Astoria, 
L. I., August 12, 1849. He was a member of 
the Pennsylvania State Convention of 1789, and 
of the Legislature, 1790-92; member of Con- 
gress, 1795-1801; Secretary of the United States 
Treasury, 1801-13; Commissioner to St. Peters- 
burg, 1813; Commissioner to Ghent, where the 
treaty of peace was made, December 24, 1814; 
Minister to France, 1815-23; Envoy Extraordi- 
nary to Great Britain, 1826-27; President of the 
Council of the New York University, 1830; 
President of the New York National Bank, 1831- 
39 ; a founder and first president of the Ethnologi- 
cal Society, 1848; author of several works on the 
Indians and finance. 

The fortieth anniversary of the Society was 
celebrated on November 20, 1844, by an address by 
John Romeyn Brodhead, delivered at six o'clock 
in the evening in the Church of the Messiah, 
Broadway, opposite the then newly erected New 
York Hotel. After the address the members and 
guests adjourned to the New York Hotel for 
dinner. 

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The Society continued to advance in prosperity 
and usefulness; its membership was largely in- 
creased; the library was much enhanced by valu- 
able additions; the stated meetings were fully at- 
tended, and a lively spirit of devotion to the cause 
for which they associated themselves was shown in 
the interest of the members generally. 

On June 1, 1847, a committee of nine was 
appointed to solicit subscriptions to raise the sum 
of $50,000, to be applied to the erection of a 
permanent fireproof building, the subscriptions to 
be binding when the sum of $10,000 was sub- 
scribed. 

It was resolved, on December 19, 1848, to pre- 
pare a memorial to the Legislature for an appro- 
priation toward the erection of the proposed new 
building. The memorial failed to receive the 
favorable action of the Assembly, thirteen months 
later. 

On Sunday morning, February 3, 1849, the 
smaller chapel in the University Building, the floor 
below the rooms of the Society, was discovered to 
be on fire. The prompt exertions of the inmates 
of the building, and of the firemen who assembled 
as soon as the alarm was given, saved the library 
and collections of the Society. During the excite- 
ment caused by the fire, the president's chair was 
thrown from the window and broken. This chair 
was purchased by Mr. Gouverneur Morris when 
Minister to France, at a sale of the contents of 
the Versailles. It was part of the furniture of 
Marie Antoinette, and was presented to the 

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Society, May 6, 1817, by Mrs. Gouverneur Morris, 
to be used by the presiding officer. 

A memorial of the Society was presented to the 
Corporation of the city, urging the importance of 
the publication of the minutes of the Common 
Council. A communication from the latter body 
Avas read at the meeting held April 3, 184*9, stat- 
ing that it was inexpedient to comply with the 
memorial of the Society to print the unpublished 
proceedings of the Common Council. After a 
lapse of fifty-five years, the English period of 
these records (1675-1776) is now in press, under 
the supervision of a committee of the Society, 
appointed in response to a second memorial ad- 
dressed to the Mayor of the city, dated April 1, 
1902. 

The Hon. Luther Bradish, LL.D., first vice- 
president since 1845, and who was very active in 
the advancement of the Society, succeeded the late 
Albert Gallatin, as the tenth president of the 
Society, January 2, 1850. 

Mr. Bradish was born at Cummington, Mass., 
September 15, 1783; died at Newport, R. I., 
August 30, 1863. In 1826 he settled in Franklin 
County, N. Y., where he was a large land-owner; 
was member of the Assembly, 1828-30 and 1836- 
38; Lieutenant-Governor of the State, 1839-43; 
Assistant United States Treasurer at New York, 
1851-52; and at his death was president of this 
Society and of the American Bible Society. 

In 1851 the Society again memorialized the 
Legislature for aid in the erection of a fireproof 

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building. The Legislature adjourned without tak- 
ing any action. Four years later the committee 
on memorializing the Legislature was discharged. 

Owing to the insufficiency of accommodations 
in the library, the place of meetings was changed 
to the small chapel of the University, on May 4, 
1852. 

On January 4, 1853, the committee reported that 
paid subscriptions amounting to $34,920.40 had 
been received. 

In the meantime the following sites for the new 
building were offered for consideration: Lafay- 
ette Place, west side, between Astor Place and 
Fourth Street; Sixteenth Street near Sixth Ave- 
nue, site of the present Everett House, East Sev- 
enteenth Street; southwest corner of Broadway 
and Twentieth Street, and the gore of land, Broad- 
way, Fifth Avenue, Twenty-second to Twenty- 
third Streets, now occupied by the Fuller Build- 
ing, known as the " Flatiron." 

The Society, by resolution, recommended to the 
favorable consideration of the Building Commit- 
tee a site on Second Avenue and Eleventh Street, 
consisting of 55 feet on Second Avenue by 100 feet 
on Eleventh Street, with 4>y 2 feet in width adjacent 
on the avenue, for air and light. 

The semi-centennial celebration of the founding 
of the Society was held at Niblo's Saloon, No- 
vember 20, 1854, at 2.30 p.m. George Bancroft 
delivered the address, entitled " The Necessity, 
the Reality, and the Promise of the Progress of 
the Human Race." 

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HOMES OF THE SOCIETY 




NEW BUILDING 
Seventy-sixth — Seventy-seventh Streets — Central Park West 



After the exercises, the Society, with their 
guests, proceeded to the Astor House, where they 
sat down to dinner at six o'clock. Thirteen regu- 
lar and twelve volunteer toasts were offered. The 
assembly adjourned shortly after twelve o'clock. 

The corner-stone of the present building was 
laid Wednesday, October 17, 1855, by the presi- 
dent of the Society, the Hon. Luther Bradish, 
with addresses by Frederic de Peyster, Rev. Dr. 
Bethune, and others. The newspapers of the day 
report that the stone was so large that fears were 
entertained that it would break down the platform, 
but by the aid of a derrick it was placed in position. 

After overcoming many serious and almost fatal 
obstacles to its progress, the Society held its first 
meeting with dedicatory ceremonies in the present 
edifice, November 3, 1857; and two weeks later 
celebrated the fifty -third anniversary of the found- 
ing of the institution. 

At the first meeing held in its new home, Mr. 
Benjamin R. Winthrop presented the " Washing- 
ton Chair " for the use of the presiding officer of 
the Society. This chair was made of timber from 
the house occupied by President Washington in 
1789, which stood at the junction of Pearl and 
Cherry Streets, formerly known as St. George's 
Square, now Franklin Square. The edifice was 
erected in 1770, for Walter Franklin, a well-known 
and highly respected citizen. The chair is of oak, 
neatly carved; the high back is ornamented with 
scroll-work, in which are appropriately wrought 
the initials G. W. A bust of Washington, in a 

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wreath of laurel, forms the centre ornament of the 
upper part of the chair. The front of the seat 
bears the escutcheon and arms of the United 
States, while the arms of the city and State of 
New York are carved in relief on medallions. Mr. 
Winthrop, seven years later, presented similar 
chairs for the use of the first and second vice- 
presidents. 

A fund was established by the Society in 1858, 
for the publication of its transactions and collec- 
tions in American history. Of the shares of the 
capital stock of this fund, limited in number to 
one thousand, 829 have been sold. The interest 
of the principal is used for the publication of each 
successive volume. The jn-ice of the remaining 171 
shares is one hundred dollars per share. Each 
share is transferrable on the books of the fund, 
and entitles the holder, his heirs, administrators or 
assigns to receive all the publications. Thirty 
volumes have been published as Collections. 

The Society had acquired a small collection of 
portraits, and proposed to enlarge and extend 
their Art Collections, with a view of providing a 
public gallery of art in this city. 

The entire collection of the New York Gallery 
of Fine Arts was transferred to the Society in 
1858. Any notice of this collection would be 
deficient which should fail to commemorate the 
name of Luman Reed, whose taste, judgment, and 
generosity formed the nucleus of what may now 
be justly regarded as the foundation of a gallery 
of art. In this connection the Society was chiefly 

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indebted to the liberality and cordial cooperation 
of one of their valued members, Mr. Jonathan 
Sturges, who was the chief promoter of the orig- 
inal design of the New York Gallery of the Fine 
Arts. 

Mr. James Lenox, having acquired the Nineveh 
Sculptures, presented them to the Society April 5, 
1859. 

The Abbott Collection of Egyptian Antiquities, 
collected by Dr. Henry Abbott during a residence 
of twenty years in Cairo, became the property of 
the Society through some public-spirited citizens of 
this city in 1860. The jewelry in the collection is 
unique, and contains, among other articles, the gold 
necklace and ear-rings bearing the name of Menes, 
the first Pharaoh of Egypt; also the large gold 
signet-ring of Shoufou, or Cheops, as High Priest 
and King. The collection also contains three large 
mummies of the Sacred Bull, Apis, the only speci- 
mens known in the world. 

The Society was the first to formulate a plan 
to establish a museum and art gallery for the pub- 
lic in Central Park, as may be seen by the action 
of the Executive Committee, August 14, 1860: 

: ' Whereas , The position and character of the 
building known as the New York State Arsenal, 
near the southeastern corner of Central Park, 
point it out as a proper location for a grand mu- 
seum of antiquities, science, and art; 

" And, Whereas, There appears to be no exist- 
ing institution whose present collections and pros- 
pects for future acquisitions seem more suitable to 

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the occasion than this Society, the recent and pros- 
pective increase of whose museum and gallery of 
art already indicates the rapidly approaching ne- 
cessity of a more ample provision for their accom- 
modation ; 

" Therefore, mindful of their relations and duties 
to the citizens of New York, who have so liberally 
sustained all their efforts to place upon an endur- 
ing foundation the establishment of this Society as 
a public institution, whose collections in all depart- 
ments may be accessible to all classes of the com- 
munity, subject only to such regulations as may be 
essential for security and preservation, and antici- 
pating cordial and universal approbation; 

" Resolved, That a committee of five members, 
of which the president of the Society shall be a 
member and requested to act as chairman, be 
appointed to take such preliminary measures as 
may be advisable, with a view to securing the State 
Arsenal and adjoining ground in the Central Park 
for the museum of the Society." 

A special committee was appointed, who secured 
the approval of the plan by the Commissioners of 
Central Park, and in 1862 the Society memorial- 
ized the Legislature to set apart the Arsenal Build- 
ing in the Park for the proposed museum. 

An act to improve Central Park was passed by 
the Legislature, March 25, 1862, authorizing the 
Commissioners to set apart and appropriate to the 
Society the building known as the New York State 
Arsenal, with such grounds adjoining as the Com- 
missioners may determine necessary for the pur- 

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pose of establishing and maintaining by the So- 
ciety a museum of antiquities and science and a 
gallery of art. Efforts to secure the necessary 
funds for the promotion of the plan failed. 

In consequence of the low ground and the prox- 
imity of the reservoir near the Arsenal Building, 
the Society urged a change to higher ground in the 
Park. The Legislature passed an act, April 29, 
1868, setting apart for the use of the Society a 
site in the Park, covering Eighty-first to Eighty- 
fourth Streets, 300 feet west of Fifth Avenue, 
the building to be erected at the expense of the 
Society. 

Renewed efforts were made in 1870 to carry out 
the plan of the Society to establish a museum of 
history, antiquities, and art, by the erection of a 
building on the new site in the Park; but owing to 
the great cost of the proposed building, and the 
erection of the same on city property, the scheme 
was finally abandoned. 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art occupies this 
site, the buildings being erected by the city at a 
cost of. $1,000,000, and an annual appropriation 
from the city of $150,000 for its support. 

Mr. Bradish was succeeded in the office of 
president by Frederic de Peyster, LL.D., who 
was secretary, 1827-37, and second vice-president, 
1850-63, becoming the eleventh president of the 
Society, January 5, 1864, and serving until 1867. 
Mr. De Peyster was again elected president (the 
fifteenth) in 1873, and served until his death, 
which took place on August 17, 1882, in the eighty- 

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sixth year of his age, at the residence of his son, 
Gen. J. Watts de Peyster, Tivoli, N. Y. 

Frederic de Peyster was born in this city, No- 
vember 18, 1796. He was a direct descendent of 
Johannes de Peyster, and son of Frederic de Peys- 
ter. He was graduated at Columbia College, 1816. 
During the War of 1812, he served as a volunteer, 
with other students of the college, in the erection 
of fortifications at " McGown's Pass " for the de- 
fense of this city. In 1819 he was admitted to the 
bar, and in 1820 was appointed a Master in Chan- 
cery. Shortly after his admission to the bar he 
was appointed a captain in the One Hundred and 
Fifteenth Regiment. In 1825 he was aide to 
Brigadier-General Fleming, and later became a 
member of Governor De Witt Clinton's staff. He 
served most faithfully in the boards of manage- 
ment of many charitable and educational institu- 
tions, and the instances of his liberal benefactions 
are numerous on their records. 

During a membership in the Society covering 
fifty-eight years, Mr. de Peyster was its constant 
and ardent friend, and one of its liberal benefac- 
tors. Besides valuable donations of his own, he 
gave his aid effectually on more than one occa- 
sion when the very existence of the Society was 
at stake. In 1827, Mr. de Peyster, as agent of 
the Society, successfully appealed to the Legisla- 
ture for an appropriation for the relief of the 
institution. The following letter from Mr. de 
Peyster reports the progress of the bill before the 
Legislature : 

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Albany, February 8, 1827. 

Sir: I have the pleasure of informing you that 
the Senate this day unanimously passed the bill 
appropriating five thousand dollars for the relief 
of the New York Historical Society. 

The bill was then sent to the House; has been 
twice read; and is already committed. To effect 
a favorable result in the Assembly will, I am aware, 
require a great sacrifice of time and unremitted 
personal exertion. But animated by my success 
hitherto, and the fair claims of the Society for 
legislative aid, I am willing to encounter every 
obstacle, in the hope and belief of accomplishing 
the present undertaking. 

I have the honor to be, sir, your obt. sevt., 

Frederic de Peyster, Jr. 
Dr. David Hosack^ 

Pres't N. Y. H. S. 

The following resolution was adopted at a meet- 
ing held March 13, 1827: 

" Resolved, That the thanks of this Society be 
presented to Frederic de Peyster, Jr., Esq., for 
his zealous, efficient, and disinterested services in 
proceeding to Albany and presenting to the Legis- 
lature the claims of this Society." 

The Society celebrated the two hundredth anni- 
versary of the conquest of New Netherland by an 
address, delivered in the hall of Cooper Union, 
October 12, 1864, by John Romeyn Brodhead. 

The Hon. Hamilton Fish, LL.D., was elected 
the twelfth president of the Society at an annual 

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meeting held January 2, 1867; and resigned March 
29, 1869, to become Secretary of State of the 
United States. 

Mr. Fish was born in this city, August 3, 1808; 
son of Col. Nicholas Fish. He graduated at 
Columbia College, 1827; admitted to the bar in 
1830; member of Congress, 1843-45; Lieutenant- 
Governor of New York, U847-49; Governor, 1849- 
51; United States Senator, 1851-57; Secretary of 
State, 1869-77. 

After his return to this city Mr. Fish served 
as first vice-president of the Society from 1881 
to 1888, declining a reelection in consequence 
of advancing years. He died at Garrisons, 
New York, September 7, 1893, aged eighty-five 
years. 

The Society is indebted to the munificence of 
Mr. Thomas J. Bryan for the gift, April 2, 1867, 
of his noble collection, so well known as the Bryan 
Gallery of Christian Art, which was arranged and 
described under his own direction. During a sub- 
sequent visit to Europe Mr. Bryan continued his 
purchases, still further to enrich this gallery, and 
the zeal and enthusiasm to which the Society is 
deeply indebted were uninterrupted to the time of 
his death, May 14, 1870. 

Originally this collection was arranged for ex- 
hibition on the walls of a spacious room on Broad- 
way, where Mr. Bryan took up his abode in the 
adjoining chambers. There he could be found, 
seated in an old-fashioned arm-chair, with his 
snow-white hair and florid complexion, like some 

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old Venetian or Florentine in his ancestral palace, 
surrounded with pictorial heirlooms. 

He found it impossible to insure his treasures, 
exposed as they were, without great expense. 
Often he lamented that there was no public gallery 
where they would be accessible to the people and 
perfectly safe. He finally placed his pictures 
temporarily in the Cooper Union. Six paintings 
including a miniature of himself by Staigg were 
stolen from the collection before it was received 
by the Society; the miniature was subsequently 
recovered at a curiosity shop. 

The splendid results of Mr. Bryan's judicious 
taste and persevering liberality, thus dedicated to 
the public in the interest of art, are alike honorable 
to him, to the Society, and to the city. 

The library of the Society was enriched, May 
7, 1867, by the addition of the library relating to 
American history, of the Rev. Dr. Francis L. 
Hawks, purchased from the family of the Doctor 
and presented to the Society by Mr. William 
Niblo. The library is named the " Hawks-Niblo 
Collection." 

At a stated meeting held June 1, 1869, the Rev. 
Thomas De Witt, D.D., second vice-president, 
1840-49, first vice-president, 1850-69, and very 
active in the advancement of its welfare, succeeded 
Mr. Fish as the thirteenth president of the Society. 

Dr. De Witt was born in Kingston, N. Y., 
September 13, 1791; died in this city, May 18, 
1874. He was graduated at Union College, 
1808, and from the Theological Seminary at New 

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Brunswick, N. J., 1812. The same year he was 
ordained pastor of the combined congregations of 
New Hackensack and Hopewell, Dutchess 
County, N. Y., where he remained until 1827, 
when he accepted a call to the Collegiate Dutch 
Church of New York city, of which he was the 
senior clergyman from 1858 until his death. He 
was an active director of the Bible, Colonization, 
Tract, and Sunday-school Societies, as well as the 
boards of his Church. He was one of the last of 
the ministers of the Reformed Dutch Church who 
could preach in the Dutch language. 

The Hon. Augustus Schell, first vice-president, 
and a member of the executive committee since 
1845, was elected the fourteenth president of the 
Society, January 2, 1872. 

Mr. Schell was born at Rhinebeck, N. Y., Au- 
gust 1, 1812, the son of Christian and Eliza- 
beth (Hughes) Schell. He graduated with marked 
distinction from Union College in 1830. He was 
admitted to the bar of this city, October, 1832. In 
1857 he was appointed by President Buchanan 
Collector of the Port of New York. In 1867 he 
was elected a member of the Constitutional Con- 
vention of the State of New York, and bore a 
prominent part in its most important labors. In 
1872 he was appointed by Governor Hoffman a 
member of the Commission to propose amendments 
to the Constitution of the State. 

During his half century of active life in New 
York Mr. Schell was conspicuous in most of the 
literary, social, and charitable institutions which 

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have been so marked a feature of the period. He 
was for thirty years a most efficient member of 
the Board of Trustees of the New York Institu- 
tion for the Blind, and since 1866 its president. 

For nearly half a century Mr. Schell had been 
one of the most active members of the Society. 
As one of the executive committee from 1845 to 
1872, and its chairman for twenty years, during 
the period of its most arduous labors and activity, 
and subsequently during his terms of office as 
president, Mr. Schell was devoted to the interests 
of the Society. On January 3, 1883, he was elected 
the sixteenth president of the Society, and served 
until his death, March 27, 1884. 

The centennial of the Battle of Harlem Heights 
was celebrated Sej3tember 16, 1876. The proceed- 
ings were under the charge of a Committee of 
One Hundred of the members of the Society. 
The guests were received at the Fifth Avenue 
Hotel, where a collation was provided, and were 
then escorted by the officers of the Society to the 
site of the battle-ground, where platforms, gayly 
decorated with the Continental, Union, State, and 
city flags, were arranged for their reception. The 
ground, covered with tents, presented the appear- 
ance of an encampment, and from its elevated 
position commanding extensive views of the North 
and East rivers, was visible from a great distance, 
presenting a scene of rare and animated beauty. 

The officers and their guests arrived upon the 
field at the appointed hour, three o'clock in the 
afternoon, and were closely followed by the 

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Seventh Regiment New York State Militia, who 
marched past to the position assigned them, where 
they halted in military formation. 

The meeting was called to order by President 
de Peyster, who introduced the Rev. Dr. Dix, 
Rector of Trinity Church, who delivered the in- 
vocation, followed by the oration, delivered by the 
Hon. John Jay. The proceedings were closed by 
a benediction pronounced by the Rev. William 
Adams, D.D. The address of Mr. Jay was pub- 
lished, with an historical appendix compiled by 
Mr. William Kelby. 

The one hundredth anniversary of the adoption 
of the Constitution of the State of New York 
(April 20, 1877), was celebrated by the Society at 
the Academy of Music, May 8, 1877. The address 
was delivered by Mr. Charles O' Conor, on " The 
Constitutions." 

At the meeting of November 1, 1881, the subject 
of an appropriate celebration by the Society of the 
centennial anniversary of the evacuation of New 
York by the British, was referred to the executive 
committee, who, in a communication to the Mayor 
and Common Council, called their attention to this 
event, and expressed the desire of the Society to 
cooperate with them in a suitable celebration. 
Subsequently the Chamber of Commerce also 
asked the city authorities to take action in the 
matter. The event was celebrated by the city, with 
the cooperation of the Society, the Chamber of 
Commerce, and other civic and military bodies. 

In 1882, one hundred and fifty paintings of the 

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most meritorious works of art in the collection of 
Mr. Louis Durr, a member, were presented to the 
Society by his executors, in accordance with the 
terms expressed in his last will. The remainder 
of his collection was sold, and the proceeds merged 
in a " Durr Gallery Fund." The Durr collection 
is especially valuable to the Society in increasing 
the admirable facilities offered to the student in 
connection with the " Bryan Gallery." 

At an annual meeting held January 6, 1885, Mr. 
Benjamin H. Field was elected the seventeenth 
president of the Society. 

Mr. Field was born at Yorktown, N. Y., May 
2, 1814; died in this city, March 16, 1893. He 
received his early education at home, and finished 
his studies at the North Salem Academy. Having 
decided to go into business he entered the office 
of his uncle, and in 1832 he became his partner. 
Among the institutions with which Mr. Field was 
connected as director or trustee were several banks, 
the New York Institution for the Deaf and 
Dumb, the New York Dispensary, and the Eye 
and Ear Infirmary. He was president of the 
Home for Incurables at Fordham from the time 
of its organization until his death. 

In 1844 Mr. Field became a life member of this 
Society; treasurer, 1860-77; second vice-president, 
1878-84; for many years a member of the executive 
committee, and was very active in aiding and secur- 
ing the necessary funds for the erection of the 
present edifice. 

On December 1, 1885, Mr. John S. Kennedy 

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submitted a letter from a friend of the Society, 
stating there was deposited with the Central Trust 
Company the sum of $100,000, for the purchase of 
a site and the erection of a building suitable for 
the purposes of the institution, subject to the con- 
dition that the further sum of $300,000 be 
secured therefor within two years from November 
30, 1885. 

It being found impossible to raise the amount 
within the time specified by the donor, Mrs. Rob- 
ert L. Stuart, the Society requested an extension 
of twelve months, which was granted. The amount 
of the sum required by its conditions to be sub- 
scribed for the proposed object was reduced from 
$300,000 to $150,000. 

The Hon. John Alsop King was elected the 
eighteenth president of the Society, January 4, 
1887, and became chairman of the committee on 
subscriptions. Active measures were begun, and 
through the great exertion and generosity of Presi- 
dent King the necessary sum was secured. 

Hon. John Alsop King, son of Governor John 
Alsop King, and grandson of Hon. Rufus King, 
was born at Jamaica, L. I., July 14, 1817; gradu- 
ated at Harvard University in 1835; studied the 
profession of law, and was chosen presidential 
elector in 1872, and member of the New York 
State Senate, 1874-75. 

Mr. King became a member of the Society in 
1881, and in 1887 was elected its president and 
held that office at the time of his death, November 
21, 1900. He delivered the eighty-third anniver- 

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sary address before the Society. The ability, 
grace, and dignity which were his characteristics 
in the discharge of the duties of his office are known 
to all. Endowed by nature with a kindly and 
generous disposition, his fine qualities were further 
developed by a classical education, and by inter- 
course with the leading men of the world. 

During his whole association with The New York 
Historical Society, either as member or officer, he 
devoted himself to its interests in a singular degree. 
To his untiring efforts the Society owes the mag- 
nificent site selected for its future home, and it was 
the dream and hope of his last years that a build- 
ing worthy of this venerable Society be erected 
thereon. 

The following resolution was adopted, Decem- 
ber 4, 1900: 

" Resolved, That in the death of the Hon. John 
Alsop King The New York Historical Society la- 
ments the loss of an accomplished presiding officer, 
whose courtesy, tact, and sound judgment have 
stamped its proceedings with dignity; whose per- 
sonality contributed largely to its prosperity, and 
whose unselfish devotion to its interests will be 
held in grateful memory by every member of this 
Society." 

A memorial of Mr. King was read before the 
Society, February 5, 1901, by Dean Hoffman. 

On May 21, 1889, a special committee was ap- 
pointed to examine and report on a suitable site 
for a new building. In answer to an inquiry con- 
cerning the possible purchase of the Madison 

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Avenue front of the Lenox Library, the Trustees 
of that institution advised the committee that the 
property was not for sale. It being found that 
no suitable site on the east side could be secured at 
a cost within the means of the Society, the commit- 
tee selected the property situated on Eighth 
Avenue (Central Park West), consisting of ten 
city lots, with a frontage of 204 feet 4 inches on 
the avenue and a depth of 125 feet on Seventy- 
sixth and Seventy-seventh Streets, respectively. 
The purchase was effected June 1, 1891. 

In consequence of the depression of business 
throughout the country, the special committee 
whose appointment was authorized by the Society 
to solicit subscriptions for the erection of the new 
building were unable to report any progress until 
1899, when subscriptions amounting to $17,000 
were received. 

On the afternoon of Saturday, April 8, 1893, 
through the courtesy of the officers and members 
of the New York Cotton Exchange, the Society 
assembled in the large hall of the Exchange 
building, to celebrate the two hundredth anniver- 
sary of the introduction of the printing-press in 
the colony and city of New York, by William 
Bradford, April 10, 1693. The building of the 
Cotton Exchange is erected upon the site where 
the first newspaper was issued. The commemora- 
tive address was delivered by Mr. Charlton T. 
Lewis. To commemorate the event the Society 
erected two tablets in bronze. The first has been 
placed at No. 81 Pearl Street, to mark the site 

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where the first printing-office in the city and colony 
of New York was established, in 1693, and reads 
as follows: 

On This Site 

William Bradford 

Appointed 

Public Printer 

April 10, A.D. 1693 

Established The First 

Printing Press 

In The 

Colony Of New York 

Erected By The 

New York 

Historical Society 

April 10th, A.D. 1893 

In Commemoration Of 

The 200th Anniversary 

Of The Introduction 

Of Printing In 

New York. 

The second tablet was erected on the southeast 
corner of the New York Cotton Exchange, 
to mark the site where the first newspaper in 
New York was printed, in 1725, and read as 
follows : 

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On This Site 
William Bradford 
Appointed Public Printer, April 10th, A.D. 1693 
Issued, November 8th, A.D. 1725 
The New York Gazette 
The First Newspaper Printed In New York 
Erected By The 
New York Historical Society- 
April 10th, A.D. 1893 
In Commemoration Of the 200th Anniversary Of 
The Introduction Of Printing In New York. 

These historic sites were located by Mr. William 
Kelby, late Librarian of the Society, an authority 
on colonial New York. The Society had pre- 
viously celebrated, in May, 1868, the two hundredth 
anniversary of the birthday of William Bradford. 

The Very Rev. Eugene Augustus Hoffman, 
D.D., LL.D., succeeded Mr. King, as the nine- 
teenth president of the Society, January 2, 1901. 

Dean Hoffman was born in this city March 21, 
1829. He was sixth in descent from Martinus 
Hoffman, who came from Holland to America in 
1657. He graduated from Rutgers College in 
1847, and in 1851 from the General Theological 
Seminary. During the years 1853-79 he was rec- 
tor of Christ Church, Elizabeth, N. J., St. Mary's, 
Burlington, N. J., Grace Church, Brooklyn, and 
St. Mark's, in Philadelphia, respectively. In 

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1879 he was elected to the office of Dean of the 
General Theological Seminary, and filled that 
office until his death. He has left an enduring 
monument in the growth and prosperity of that 
institution. 

As president of this Society, Dean Hoffman 
hecame chairman of the Building Committee, 
which committee recommended for adoption the 
plans submitted by Messrs. York and Sawyer, 
and approved by the Society, October 1, 1901. 
At this meeting the Society decided to erect the 
central portion of the new building, 135 by 115 
feet. Through the active efforts and personal 
generosity of Dean Hoffman a large number 
of subscriptions were secured for the building 
fund. 

The Society, at a meeting held October 7, 1902, 
adopted the following preamble and resolutions: 

" Whereas, The New York Society has received 
the sad intelligence of the death, on June 17, 1902, 
of the Very Rev. Eugene Augustus Hoffman, 
D.D, LL.D., D.C.L., president of the Society; 

" Resolved, That we wish to unite with his kin- 
dred and friends in lamenting his decease. 

" Resolved, That we record with gratitude his 
great interest in the advancement of the Society's 
welfare during the years of his membership, ever 
actively cooperating in furthering the completion 
of the proposed new building of the Society. 

" Resolved, That we offer our tribute of high 
esteem to his memory for his generous gifts to the 
Society during his lifetime, and are deeply sensi- 

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ble of his lasting interest in our institution as 
expressed in his latest bequest. 

" Resolved, That the Society do now adjourn 
out of respect to the memory of our late president." 

An address commemorative of Dean Hoffman 
was read before the Society, December 2, 1902, by 
the Rev. Dr. William It. Huntington. 

On September 10, 1902, the informal breaking 
of ground for the new building took place. Mr. 
Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, son of the late presi- 
dent, raised the first spade of earth, in the pres- 
ence of the recording secretary, the librarian, and 
one of the architects. On September 24, 1902, a 
contract was made for the excavations and founda- 
tions for the new building. 

Mr. Samuel Verplanck Hoffman was elected 
the twentieth president of the Society, at an annual 
meeting held January 6, 1903, succeeding his 
father, the late Dean Hoffman. 

Mr. Hoffman entered upon his duties as presi- 
dent with a determination to carry out the plans 
of his predecessors to secure for the Society the 
erection of a suitable building for the proper ex- 
hibition of the large collections of the institution. 

The foundations for the central portion of the 
new building were completed, and on November 
17, 1903, the officers, members, and guests as- 
sembled at two o'clock for the purpose of wit- 
nessing the laying of the corner-stone of the 
Society's new building. 

Through the courtesy of the officers of the 
American Museum of Natural History, the So- 

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JOHN ALSOP KING 
1887-1900 



EUGENE AUGUSTU8 HOFFMAN, 0. D. 
1901-1902 



SAMUEL VERPLANK HOFFMAN 
1903— 

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PRESIDENTS 



ciety was permitted to assemble in the " Wood 
Room " of that building, and thence proceeded to 
the site of the new edifice. 

Upon request of the president, the Rev. Charles 
Edward Brugler delivered the invocation. 

The president, in a short address, reviewed the 
history of the Society from its foundation, and 
read a list of the articles and publications in the 
copper box to be placed in the corner-stone. 

The corner-stone was then laid by the Hon. Seth 
Low, LL.D., Mayor of the city of New York. 

After the ceremonies the assembly adjourned to 
the lecture hall of the American Museum of Nat- 
ural History, to celebrate the ninety-ninth anni- 
versary of the founding of the Society. 

The address was delivered by Mr. Hamilton W. 
Mabie, the subject being " The Genius of the 
Cosmopolitan City." The exercises concluded with 
the benediction, pronounced by the Rev. Alexander 
Hamilton. 

On June 2, 1903, the Society amended Section 
III of the By-Laws, to constitute a new order of 
membership to be known as Patrons and Fellows. 
In accordance with this amendment, a diploma for 
the patrons and fellows of the Society was en- 
graved by Mr. E. D. French, and is 7% by 9% 
inches in size. At the top, in the centre, is an 
heraldic eagle representing the national character 
of the Society, while underneath are shields con- 
taining the city and State coat of arms, surrounded 
by a scroll bearing the Society's name. Three 
medallions give views of the new building, the 

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Half Moon in the Hudson River being the vign- 
ette used on the diploma of the Society, and an 
early view of New Amsterdam from the original 
by Block, owned by the Society, together with a 
suitable inscription. 

The one hundredth anniversary of the founding 
of the Society was celebrated on Tuesday evening, 
November 22, 1904, by a banquet at Delmonico's. 
The banquet hall and dais were decorated with 
flowers and American flags, and the walls were 
adorned with the following portraits : 
John Pintard, founder. 

Hon. Egbert Benson, first president, 1805-15. 
Hon. Gouverneur Morris, second president, 

1816. 
Hon. De Witt Clinton, third president, 1817-19. 
Hon. James Kent, fifth president, 1828-31. 
Hon. Albert Gallatin, ninth president, 1843-49. 
Hon. Luther Bradish, tenth president, 1850-63. 
Hon. Frederic de Peyster, eleventh and fif- 
teenth president, 1864-66, 1873-82. 
Rev. Thomas De Witt, D.D., thirteenth presi- 
dent, 1869-71. 
Hon. Augustus Schell, fourteenth and sixteenth 

president, 1872, 1883-84. 
Benjamin H. Field, seventeenth president, 

1885-86. 
Hon. John Alsop King, eighteenth president, 

1887-1900. 
The Very Rev. Eugene Augustus Hoffman, 
D.D., LL.D., nineteenth president, 1901-03. 
Mr. Henry Dexter, Benefactor. 

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Invitations were extended to the President of 
the United States, the Secretary of State, the 
Governor of the State of New York, and Mayor 
of the city, representatives of historical societies 
and universities, and delegates of the various pa- 
triotic and other societies of this city. 

President Roosevelt, Secretary of State John 
Hay, Bishop Potter, Governor Odell, and Mayor 
McClellan were unable to be present. 

The invocation was pronounced by the Rev. 
Edward B. Coe, D.D. 

The following toasts were offered: 

The President of the United States. 

The State of New York. 

The City of New York. 

Our Sister Societies. Charles Francis Adams, 
LL.D., president of the Massachusetts Historical 
Society. 

America of the Future. Rt. Rev. Henry C. 
Potter, D.D. 

Popular Education. James H. Canfleld, LL.D., 
librarian of Columbia University. 

The Twentieth of November. Robert H. Kelby, 
librarian of the Society. 

Hon. Charles V. Fornes, president of the 
Board of Aldermen, in the absence of the Mayor, 
responded to the toast, " The City of New York." 

A medal in bronze and silver, designed by Mr. 
Victor D. Brenner, has been struck to commem- 
orate the one hundredth anniversary, showing on 
the obverse the first president, Egbert Benson, and 
the founder, John Pintard ; on the reverse, the first 

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home of the Society, City Hall, Wall Street, and 
the new building now in course of erection. 

As a fitting sequel to the efforts of the zealous 
friends of the Society during the past century, it 
is a pleasure to acknowledge the generous gift, by 
Mr. Henry Dexter (a member since 1863), of 
a sum sufficient to insure the erection of the central 
portion of the new building. 



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HENRY DEXTER 



APPENDIX. 



OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, 1905. 



PRESIDENT, 

SAMUEL VERPLANCK HOFFMAN. 

FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT, 

FREDERIC WENDELL JACKSON. 

SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT, 

FRANCIS ROBERT SCHELL. 

FOREIGN CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, 

ARCHER MILTON HUNTINGTON. 

DOMESTIC CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, 

GEORGE RICHARD SCHIEFFELIN. 

RECORDING SECRETARY, 

ACOSTA NICHOLS. 

TREASURER, 

CHARLES AUGUSTUS SHERMAN. 

LIBRARIAN, 

ROBERT HENDRE KELBY. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



FIRST CLASS — FOR ONE YEAR, ENDING 1906. 

F. ROBERT SCHELL, DANIEL PARISH, Jr., 

FREDERIC WENDELL JACKSON. 

SECOND CLASS — FOR TWO TEARS, ENDING 1907. 

ISAAC J. GREENWOOD, CLARENCE STORM, 

JAMES WILLIAM BEEKMAN. 

THIRD CLASS — FOR THREE TEARS, ENDING 1908. 

GHERARDI DAVIS, WALTER L. SUYDAM, 

FRANK TILFORD. 

FOURTH CLASS — FOR FOUR YEARS, ENDING 1909. 

JOHN A. WEEKES, J. PIERPONT MORGAN, 

GEORGE R. SCHIEFFELIN. 

DANIEL PARISH, Jr., Chairman. 

ROBERT H. KELBY, Secretary. 

[The President, Vice-Presidents, Recording Secretary, Treasurer, and 
Librarian are members of the Executive Committee.] 



TRUSTEES OF NEW BUILDING. 



SAMUEL VERPLANCK HOFFMAN, Chairman. 

FREDERIC WENDELL JACKSON, V ice-Chairman. 

ROBERT HENDRE KELBY. 

JAMES WILLIAM BEEKMAN. 

CLARENCE STORM, Secretary. 



OFFICERS— 1805-1905. 



OFFICERS OF THE 
NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

Instituted November 20, 1804. Organized January 14, 1805. 



PRESIDENTS. 

Egbert Benson, LL.D 1805-1815 

GOUVERNEUR MORRIS 1816 

DeWitt Clinton, LL.D 1817-1819 

David Hosack, M.D., LL.D 1820-1827 

James Kent, LL.D 1828-1831 

Morgan Lewis 1832-1835 

Peter Gerard Stuyvesant 1836-1839 

Peter Augustus Jay, LL.D 1840-1842 

Albert Gallatin, LL.D 1843-1849 

Luther Bradish, LL.D 1850-1863 

Frederic de Peyster, LL.D 1864-1866 

Hamilton Fish, LL.D 1867-1869 

Thomas DeWitt, D.D 1869-1871 

Augustus Schell 1872 

Frederic de Peyster, LL.D 1873-1882 

Augustus Schell 1883-1884 

Benjamin Hazard Field 1885-1886 

John Alsop King 1887-1900 

Eugene Augustus Hoffman, D.D., LL.D 1901-1902 

Samuel Verplanck Hoffman 1903- 

FIRST VICE-PRESIDENTS. 

Benjamin Moore, D.D 1805-1809 

Gouverneur Morris 1810-1815 

DeWitt Clinton, LL.D 1816 

William Johnson 1817 

David Hosack, M.D 1818 

Samuel L. Mitchill, M.D 1819 

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John Trumbull 1820 

Cadwallader D. Colden 1821 

Peter Augustus Jay 1824-1827 

Philip Hone 1828-1839 

William Beach Lawrence 1840-1844 

Luther Bradish 1845-1849 

Thomas DeWitt, D.D 1850-1869 

Gulian C. Verplanck 1870 

Augustus Schell 1871 

Erastus C. Benedict 1872 

William Cullen Bryant 1873-1878 

Charles O'Conor 1879-1880 

Hamilton Fish 1881-1888 

John A. Weekes 1889-1895 

J. Pierpont Morgan 1896-1902 

Frederic Wendell Jackson 1903- 



SECOND VICE-PRESIDENTS. 

Brockholst Livingston 1805-1809 

DeWitt Clinton, LL.D 1810-1815 

William Johnson 1816 

David Hosack, M.D 1817 

John Trumbull 1818-1819 

Anthony Bleecker 1820 

John Trumbull 1821-1822 

Peter Augustus Jay 1823 

John Trumbull 1824-1827 

Charles King 1828-1831 

Samuel Ward, Jr 1832-1835 

William Beach Lawrence 1836-1839 

Thomas DeWitt, D.D 1840-1849 

Frederic de Peyster 1850-1863 

Benjamin R. Winthrop 1864-1867 

Gulian C. Verplanck 1S68-1869 

John A. Dix 1870 

Erastus C. Benedict 1871 

James William Beekman 1872-1877 

Benjamin H. Field 1878-1884 

Cornelius Vanderbilt 1885 

John A. Weekes 1886-1888 

John S. Kennedy 1889-1901 

Nicholas Fish 1902 

Francis Robert Schell 1903- 

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FOREIGN CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES. 

(Office established March 7 1843.) 

Frederic de Peyster 1843-1844 

John Russell Bartlett 1845-1849 

Edward Robinson, D.D 1850-1862 

George Bancroft, LL.D 1863-1867 

John Romeyn Brodhead, LL.D 1868-1870 

William Cullen Bryant, LL.D 1871-1872 

William J. Hoppin 1873-1875 

George H. Moore, LL.D 1876-1878 

Erasttjs C. Benedict 1879-1880 

John William Draper, M.D., LL.D 1881 

William M. Evarts, LL.D 1882-1887 

John Bigelow 1888-1895 

Eugene Augustus Hoffman, D.D 1896-1900 

Nicholas Fish 1901 

Francis Robert Schell 1902 

Archer Milton Huntington 1903- 



CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES. 

Samuel Miller, D.D 1805-1813 

David Hosack, M.D 1814-1816 

John W. Francis, M.D 1817-1818 

Lyman Spalding, M.D 1819-1820 

Frederick C. Schaeffer, D.D 1821 

Henry M. Francis, M.D 1822-1826 

Frederic de Peyster, Jr 1827-1829 

(This office was merged in that of Recording Secretary in 1829, 
and revived in 1838.) 

Frederic de Peyster 1838-1843 

(Name of office changed March 7, 1843, to Domestic Corresponding 
Secretary.) 

George Folsom 1843-1844 

John Jay 1845-1847 

James William Beekman 1848-1854 

Samuel Osgood, D.D 1855-1864 

John Romeyn Brodhead, LL.D 1865-1867 

William J. Hoppin 1868-1872 

Evert A. Duyckinck 1873-1878 

Edward F. de Lancey 1879-1899 

Nicholas Fish 1900 

Frederic Wendell Jackson 1901-1902 

George R. Schieffelin 1903- 

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RECORDING SECRETARIES. 

John Pintard 1805-1819 

John B. Beck, M.D 1820-1822 

Matthew C. Patterson 1823-1824 

Benjamin Haight 1824-1827 

Joseph Blunt 1828 

Frederic de Peyster, Jr 1829-1837 

Benjamin R. Winthrop 1838 

John C. Jay, M.D 1839 

Benjamin R. Winthrop 1840-1841 

Charles Ray King, M.D 1842 

John Jay 1843-1844 

John Bigelow 1845 

Andrew Warner 1846-1849 

Matjnsell B. Field 1850-1853 

Andrew Warner 1854-1899 

Sydney H. Carney, Jr., M.D 1900-1904 

Acosta Nichols 1905- 



TREASURERS. 

Charles Wilkes 1805-1818 

John Pintard, LL.D 1819-1827 

John Delafield 1828-1836 

Hickson W. Field 1837-1839 

Russell H. Nevtns 1840 

Archibald Russell 1841-1842 

Cyrus Mason, D.D 1843-1847 

William Chauncey 1848-1859 

Benjamin H. Field 1860-1877 

Benjamin B. Sherman 1878-1884 

Robert Schell 1885-1900 

Charles A. Sherman 1901- 

LIBRARIANS. 

John Forbes 1805-1809 

John Pintard 1810-1811 

John W. Francis, M.D 1812-1818 

Frederick C. Schaeffer, D.D 1819-1820 

Henry M. Francis, M.D 1821 

Matthew C. Patterson 1822 

Henry W. Ducachet, M.D 1823 

Robert Greenhow, M.D 1824-1826 

86 



Richard Rat 1827 

James A. Hillhouse 1828 

John Delafield, Jr 1829-1830 

Samuel Ward, 3d 1831-1835 

Joseph Blunt 1836-1839 

George W. Folsom 1840-1841 

George Gibbs 1842-1847 

Jacob B. Moore 1848 

George H. Moore 1849-1875 

John Austin Stevens 1876-1878 

Jacob B. Moore 1879-1887 

Charles Isham 1888-1892 

William Kelby 1893-1898 

Robert H. Kelby 1898- 



STANDING COMMITTEE. 

William Johnson 1805-1815 

Samuel L. Mitchill, M.D 1805-1818 

David Hosack, M.D 1805-1813 

John M. Mason, D.D 1805-1817 

Daniel D. Tompkins 1805-1808 

John McKesson 1805-1817 

Anthony Bleecker 1805-1819 

DeWitt Clinton 1808-1809 

Gulian C. Verplanck 1810-1827 

Peter Augustus Jay 1814-1820 

Samuel F. Jarvis, D.D 1816 

James Eastburn 1817-1819 

John G. Bogert 1818-1820 

Jacob Morton 1818 

John McKesson 1819-1820 

Joseph W. Bracket! 1819-1820 

John W. Francis, M.D 1820-1828 

Thomas Eddy 1820-1821 

Anthony Bleecker 1821-1827 

William Gracie 1821-1828 

Matthew C. Patterson 1821 

Henry W. Ducachet, M.D 1821-1822 

Zachariah Lewis 1822-1823 

Ezra Weeks 1822 

William L. Stone 1823-1824 

John H. Beck, M.D 1823-1824 

William Cooper 1824 

87 



Joseph Blunt 1825-1827 

Robert C. Sands 1825 

James E. DeKay, M.D. 1825 

Henry Brevoort 1828 

William Sampson 1828 

Hugh Maxwell 1828 

Matthew C. Patterson 1828 

Samuel Ward 1828 

(This Committee was abolished by an amendment of the Constitution 
of the Society, January 9, 1829.) 



COMMITTEE ON PRINTED PUBLICATIONS. 

Francis L. Hanks, D.D 1837-1838 

Frederic de Peyster 1837-1839 

Henry M. Francis, M.D 1837-1838 

George Folsom 1839 

John L. Stephens 1839-1841 

George Gibbs 1841 

Archibald Russell 1841 

John Russell Bartlett 1841 

John Neilson, Jr., M.D 1842 



COMMITTEE ON MANUSCRIPTS. 

George B. Rapelye 1837 

Gouverneur Morris Wilkins 1837-1839 

George Folsom 1837-1838 

Archibald Russell 1839 

George Gibbs 1839 

John Knox, D.D 1840-1841 

William W. Campbell 1840-1842 

Prosper M. Wetmore 1841-1842 

Henry R. Schoolcraft 1842 

(The above Committees were succeeded by an Executive Committee, 
November 1, 1842.) 



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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

Cyrus Mason, D.D 1842-1847 

Prosper M. Wetmore 1842-1848 

George Folsom 1842 

John Jay 1842-1847 

Frederic de Peyster 1842-1866 

Gttlian C. Verplanck 1843-1845 

Edward Robinson, D.D 1843-1862 

John L. Stephens 1843 

Alexander W. Bradford 1843-1845 

William L. Stone 1843 

Erastus C. Benedict 1843-1848 

Albert Gallatin 1843-1849 

William Beach Lawrence 1843-1845 

Thomas DeWitt, D.D 1843-1871 

George Gibbs 1S43-1848 

Henry R. Schoolcraft 1S45-1847 

John Romeyn Brodhead 1845-1872 

Augustus Schell 1845-1884 

Luther Bradish 1845-1863 

John Bigelow 1845 

John Russell Bartlett 1845-1849 

James William Beekman 1846-1854 

Andrew Warner 1846-1899 

William Chauncey 184S-1869 

Jacob B. Moore 1848 

William W. Campbell 1849 

Marshall S. Bidwell 1849-1857 

George H. Moore 1843-1892 

Benjamin H. Field 1849-1893 

Francis L. Hawks, D.D 1849-1889 

Charles H. Russell 1850 

Maunsell B. Field 1850-1855 

Erastus C. Benedict 1851-1880 

Benjamin R. Wintrhop 18.55-1867 

Samuel Osgood, D.D 1855-1879 

George Folsom 185S-1868 

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Benjamin W. Bonney 1860-1867 

George Bancroft 1863-1867 

Charles P. Kirkxand 1864-1883 

George Gibbs 1864-1867 

Robert L. Stuart 1864-1866 

William Tilden Blodgett 1867-1874 

John Adriance 1867-1873 

Hamilton Fish 1867-1869 

Evert A. Duyckinck 1868-1878 

James William Beekman 1868-1877 

Robert Lenox Kennedy 1869-1887 

Edward F. de Lancey 1869-1900 

William R. Martin 1870-1873 

John Taylor Johnston 1872-1886 

Frederic de Peyster 1873-1882 

Joseph B. Varnum 1873-1874 

Henry Drisler 1874-1876 

James H. Titus 1874-1879 

John Austin Stevens 1875-1878 

Jacob D. Vermilye 1877-1885 

William Dowd 1877-1888 

Benjamin B. Sherman 1878-1884 

Jacob B. Moore 1879-1887 

Joseph W. Patterson 1880-1881 

John A. Weekes 1880-1900 

Royal Phelps 1881-1884 

William Libbey 1881-1887 

John C. Barron, M.D 1881-1886 

Willard Parker, Jr., M.D 1881-1887 

Robert Schell 1885-1900 

John W. C. Leveridge 1885-1896 

John S. Kennedy 1885-1900 

Daniel Parish, Jr 1886- 

Charles H. Russell, Jr 1887-1898 

John Alsop King 1887-1900 

Charles Isham 1888-1902 

Frederic Gallatin 1888-1898 

George W. Vanderbilt 1889-1902 

J. Pierpont Morgan 1889- 

Francis Tomes 1890-1897 

William Kelby 1892-1898 

Isaac J. Greenwood 1895- 

John J. Tucker 1897-1902 

Robert H. Kelby 1898- 

Frederic Wendell Jackson 1899- 

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Nicholas Fish 1900-1902 

Francis Robert Schell 1900- 

A. V. W. Van Vechten 1900 

Sydney H. Carney, Jr., M.D 1900-1904 

Eugene Augustus Hoffman, D.D 1901-1902 

Charles Frederic Hoffman, Jr 1901-1902 

Charles A. Sherman 1901- 

John A. Weekes, Jr 1902- 

George R. Schieffelin 1902- 

Frank Tilford 1902- 

Samuel Verplanck Hoffman 1903- 

Clarence Storm 1903- 

James William Beekman 1903- 

Gherardi Davis 1904- 

Walter L. Suydam 1904- 



91 



MEMBERS. 



HONORARY MEMBERS. 

Alden, Timothy Massachusetts 1810 

Allen, William " 1810 

Adams, John " 1813 

Adams, John Quincy 1813 

Austin, David Connecticut 1813 

Austin, Capt. Henry 1817 

Anderson, Andrew Scotland 1818 

Allston, Washington Massachusetts 1819 

Aspinwall, Thomas England 1819 

Adams, Jasper South Carolina 1836 

Arfwedson, Charles David Sweden 1840 

Alexander, James Eward England 1842 

Antinori, C. Vincenzio Italy 1842 

Amici, Vincenzo " 1842 

Amici, C. Giovanni B " 1842 

Arista, Mariano Mexico 1842 

Anderson, Robert U. S. A 1861 

Anderson, Alexander, M.D New York 1868 

Adams, Charles Francis Massachusetts 1871 

Arthur, Chester Alan New York 1881 

Bard, Samuel New York . .1810 

Brown, Charles Brockden Pennsylvania 1810 

Buckminster, Joseph S Massachusetts 1810 

Bozman, John Leeds Maryland 1811 

Buchan, Earl of Scotland 1813 

Banks, Sir Joseph England 1813 

Bostock, John " 1813 

Bloomfield, Joseph. New Jersey 1813 

Boudinot, Elias " 1813 

Boudinot, Elisha " 1813 

Bentley, William Massachusetts 1813 

Beck, Theodoric Romeyn New York 1813 

Bradford, Alden Massachusetts 1813 

Bradbury, John England 1816 

Brown, Jacob Washington, D. C 1817 

Brewster, David Scotland 1817 

95 



Busby, Charles A England 1817 

Brackenridge, Henry W 1817 

Blatchford, Samuel 1818 

Botta, Carlo Italy 1818 

Brown, Francis New Hampshire 1819 

Biimey, Horace Pennsylvania 1819 

Bowditch, Nathaniel Massachusetts 1821 

Beck, Lewis C 1821 

Birdseye, Victory New York 1827 

Barstow, Gamaliel H " 1827 

Buckline, David W " 1827 

Bancroft, George " 1839 

Bethune, George W Pennsylvania 1839 

Blythe, Calvin " 1839 

Barlow, Timothy Illinois 1840 

Bacon, Leonard Connecticut 1840 

Brignole di Brunnhoff, John Italy 1842 

Burci, Charles " 1842 

Berrien, John McPherson Georgia 1844 

Baldwin, Roger S Connecticut 1846 

Burnet, Jacob Ohio 1849 

Barrundia, Jose Central America 1852 

Buchanan, James Pennsylvania 1855 

Bowring, Sir John England 1858 

Bryant, William Cullen New York 1860 

Bryan, Thomas J " 1865 

Burlingame, Anson Massachusetts 1868 

Bigelow, John New York 1869 

Bismarck-Schonhausen, Otto Edward Leopold . Germany 1890 

Clinton, George New York 1810 

Correa de Serra, Jose Portugal 1813 

Clark, Adam England 1813 

Chisholm, Colin " 1813 

Cooper, Thomas Pennsylvania 1813 

Coffin, Charles Tennessee 1813 

Cogswell, Joseph Massachusetts 1813 

Carmichael, Dr Mississippi 1816 

Cogswell, Joseph G Massachusetts 1816 

Cochran, William Nova Scotia 1817 

Chauncey, Isaac 1818 

Chase, Philander Ohio 1818 

Corsini, Prince 1819 

Carter, Nathaniel H New Hampshire 1819 

Chauncey, Charles Connecticut 1819 

96 



Croswell, Edwin New York 1827 

Carroll, Charles H " 1827 

Carroll, Charles, of Carrollton Maryland 1828 

Curry, William Wallace 1832 

Cushing, Caleb Massachusetts 1837 

Charming, William E " 1839 

Cogswell, William " 1840 

Condit, John S New Jersey 1841 

Carrillo, Cura Don E Yucatan 1843 

Cass, Lewis Michigan 1844 

Cogswell, Jonathan Connecticut 1844 

Clarkson, Thomas England 1844 

Cochrane, Andrew W Canada 1846 

Choate, Rufus Massachusetts 1852 

Clark, Myron H New York 1855 

Capponi, Marquis Gino Italy 1858 

Cornell, Alonzo B New York 1880 

Cleveland, Grover " 1883 

Davis, John Massachusetts 1810 

Dwight, Timothy . .Connecticut 1810 

Duer, William A New York 1813 

Duncan, Andrew, jr England 1813 

De Lisle, Alire R France 1813 

Dunbar, Elijah New Hampshire 1813 

Davidson, Richard Mississippi 1816 

Dickerson, Mahlon New Jersey 1816 

Dewar, Henry Scotland 1817 

Duponceau, Peter S Pennsylvania 1819 

Dinsmore, Silas New Hampshire 1819 

Durand, Asher B New York 1821 

Dalhousie, Earl of Scotland 1823 

Drake, Samuel G Massachusetts 1838 

Dunn, Henry England 1839 

Davies, C. S Maine 1841 

Dod, Albert B New Jersey 1841 

Davidson, Robert " 1843 

Day, Thomas Connecticut 1843 

Dix, John A New York 1848 

Draper, John William " 1865 

Dewey, George U. S. N 1898 

Davidson, Randall Thomas England 1904 

Eliot, John Massachusetts 1810 

Ebeling, Christoph Daniel Germany 1816 

Eddy, Samuel Rhode Island 1819 

97 



Edelcrantz, Baron Sweden 1821 

Evans, David E New York 1827 

Everett, Edward Massachusetts 1839 

Elton, Romeo Rhode Island 1839 

Ericsson, John New York 1862 

Freeman, James Massachusetts 1810 

French, Jonathan New Hampshire 1813 

Franklin. William T England 1816 

Fromentin, Eligius Louisiana 1818 

Ferdinand III Tuscany 1819 

Fossombrini, Vittoria 1819 

Farmer, John New Hampshire 1819 

Featherstonehaugh, G. W England 1821 

Fine, John New York 1827 

Foote, Elial Todd " 1827 

Flagg, Azariah C " 1827 

Fenner, James Rhode Island 1828 

Felt, Joseph B Massachusetts 1839 

Friederichstahl, Le Chev Austria 1840 

Force, Peter Washington, D. C 1845 

Fillmore, Millard New York 1850 

Field, Cyrus W " 1858 

Fish, Hamilton " 1859 

Fenton, Reuben E " 1865 

Gibbs, George Rhode Island 1810 

Gahn, Henry Denmark 1813 

Good, John Mason England 1813 

Gore, Christopher Massachusetts 1813 

Gorham, John Massachusetts 1813 

Green, Ashbel New Jersey 1816 

Garden, Alexander South Carolina 1817 

Galusha, Jonas Vermont 1818 

Gregoire, Abbe France 1818 

Gallizioli, Filippo 1819 

German, John F Pennsylvania 1826 

Greig, John New York 1827 

Gardiner, David 1827 

Granger, Francis 1827 

Gaines, Edmund P Virginia 1827 

Gordon, Thomas F New Jersey 1833 

Greene, George W Rhode Island 1839 

Griiberg de Hemsd J Sweden 1841 

Gray, Francis C Massachusetts 1843 

Gilpin, Henry D Pennsylvania 1844 

98 



Gayarre, Charles Louisiana 1845 

Grant, Ulysses S U. S. A 1865 

Grote, George England 1866 

Gladstone, William E " 1879 

Garfield, James A Ohio 1881 

Hazard, Ebenezer Pennsylvania 1810 

Holmes, Abiel Massachusetts 1813 

Hoffman, George F Germany 1813 

Haygarth, John England 1813 

Humphreys, David Massachusetts 1813 

Harris, Thaddeus M " 1813 

Hall, John E Pennsylvania 1817 

Hitchcock, Edward Massachusetts 1817 

Hawkins, Samuel 1818 

Hurlburt, M. L South Carolina 1818 

Harby, Isaac " 1818 

Hartmann, C. F. A Germany 1819 

Humboldt, Alexander Prussia 1 820 

Henry, William England 1820 

Hay, William, jr New York 1827 

Hunt, Montgomery 1827 

Hawley, Gideon 1827 

Hoyt, Epaphras Massachusetts 1842 

Hamilton, Sir William Ireland 1843 

Herschel, Sir John England 1843 

Hodgson, William B Georgia 1843 

Home, Thomas H England 1S47 

Hornblower, Joseph C New Jersey 1849 

Hunt, Washington. New York 1850 

Hoffman, John T " 1869 

Hayes, Rutherford B Ohio 1879 

Harrison, Benjamin B Indiana _ . . . . 1889 

Higgins, Frank Wayland New York 1905 

Ireland, William M 1817 

Ives, Eli Connecticut 1819 

Ingraham, Joseph H Mississippi 1840 

Johnson, William S Connecticut 1810 

Jefferson, Thomas Virginia 1813 

Jenner, Edward England 1813 

Jones, Samuel 1813 

Jackson, James Massachusetts 1813 

Jeffrey, Francis Scotland 1813 

Jameson, Robert " 1817 

99 



Johnson, William South Carolina 1818 

Janaieson, Robert 1819 

Jordan, Ambrose L New York 1827 

Johnson, Alexander B 1827 

Jackson, Andrew Tennessee 1833 

Julius, N. C Germany 1836 

Jonge, Jongheer J. C. de Netherlands 1842 

Jomard, M France 1842 

James, George P. R England 1 850 

Johnson, Andrew Tennessee 1865 

Kirkland, John T Massachusetts 1810 

Kent, James New York 1813 

Kendall, James Massachusetts 1814 

Kemper, Jan Melchior Netherlands 1817 

Knight, Thomas A '. 1823 

Kirkland, Joseph New York 1837 

King, Jonas Greece 1865 

Lettsom, John C England 1813 

L'Escalier, Baron France 1813 

Lowell, Charles Massachusetts 1813 

Low, James 1813 

Lambrechtsen, N. S Netherlands 1816 

Lee, William Washington 1817 

Lewis, Morgan New York 1821 

Lafayette, Marquis de France 1824 

Lafayette, George W " 1824 

Lansing, Derrick New York 1827 

Lemon, Robert England 1843 

Lelewel, Joachim France 1845 

Lincoln, Abraham Illinois 1861 

Laboulaye, Edward France 1864 

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Massachusetts 1897 

Murray, Lindley England 1810 

Morse, Jedidiah Massachusetts 1810 

McKean, Joseph " 1810 

Mease, James Pennsylvania 1810 

Madison, James Virginia 1813 

Muhlenbergh, Henry Pennsylvania 1813 

Mellen, John Massachusetts 1813 

Michaux, Andre France 1816 

Maclure, William 1817 

Murray, John Scotland 1817 

Monroe, James Virginia 1817 

100 



Marbois, Barbe France 1818 

Mossell, S. Amos Pennsylvania 1818 

Magini, Dr 1819 

Milnor, James New York 1819 

Moulton, Joseph W " 1824 

Marcy, William L " 1827 

Moseley, Daniel " 1827 

Magnusen, Finn Denmark 1838 

Moore, Richard C Virginia 1839 

Milledoler, Philip New Jersey 1839 

Murdoch, James Connecticut 1839 

Mcllvaine, C. P Ohio 1840 

Markoe, Francis, jr Washington 1841 

Morpeth, Viscount England 1843 

Murray, Charles Augustus England 1844 

Marsh, George P Vermont 1848 

MacGregor, John England 1855 

Motley, John Lothrop Massachusetts 1856 

Morse, Samuel F. B New York 1858 

Morgan, Edwin D " 1859 

Milman, Henry Hart London 1860 

McClellan, George B U. S. A 1862 

McKinley, William Ohio 1897 

Nason, Reuben Maine 1813 

Nichols, Ichabod " 1813 

Neil, Patrick Scotland 1817 

Norman, B. M Louisiana 1843 

Navarette, M. F. de Spain 1844 

Ogden, Aaron New Jersey 1816 

Oakley, Thomas J New York 1819 

Ombrosi, James Italy 1819 

O'Callaghan, Edmund B New York 1876 

O'Conor, Charles " 1881 

Odell, Benjamin B., jr " 1901 

Pearson, George England 1813 

Putnam, Rufus Ohio 1813 

Prince, John Massachusetts 1813 

Peck, W. Dandridge " 1813 

Pierce, John " 1813 

Pickering, Timothy " 1814 

Prescott, Samuel J 1814 

Peale, Charles Wilson Pennsylvania 1817 

Plumer, William New Hampshire 1817 

101 



Perkins, Cyrus New Hampshire 1819 

Puccini, Aurelio 1819 

Persoon, C. W France 1819 

Pazos, Vicente 1819 

Porter, Peter B New York 1827 

Pitcher, Nathaniel " 1827 

Pickering, John Massachusetts 1839 

Prescott, William H " 1839 

Pennington, William New Jersey 1841 

Pitkin, Timothy Connecticut 1843 

Perez, Juan Pio Yucatan 1843 

Polk, James K Tennessee 1845 

Poussin, William Tell France 1848 

Paez, Jose A Venezuela 1850 

Pierce, Franklin New Hampshire 1853 

Pedro II Emperor of Brazil 1856 

Peabody, George England 1857 

Quincy, Josiah Massachusetts 1810 

Rush, Benjamin Pennsylvania 1810 

Ramsay, David South Carolina 1810 

Roxburgh, William India 1813 

Roscoe, William England 1813 

Rush, Richard Pennsylvania 1813 

Rumford, Count France 1813 

Randolph, Edward Mississippi 1816 

Roberdeau, Isaac Pennsylvania 1817 

Riley, James 1817 

Ridolfi, Marquis Cosimo 1819 

Robertson, William D 1820 

Rudd, John C New York 1827 

Root, Erastus " 1827 

Rain, C. C Denmark 1838 

Reed, William B Pennsylvania 1839 

Robbins, Thomas Connecticut 1843 

Ritter, Carl Germany 1844 

Raurner, Frederick Von " 1844 

Ranke, Leopold " 1844 

Ramirez, Jose Fernando Mexico 1863 

Rosencrans, William S U. S. A. . . 1865 

Rives, William C Virginia 1867 

Robinson, Lucius New York 1877 

Roosevelt, Theodore " 1899 

Reid, Whitelaw " 1905 

102 



Smith, S. Stanhope New Jersey 1810 

Sinclair, Sir John Scotland 1813 

Smith, James E England 1813 

Smith, Isaac 1813 

Shaw, William S Massachusetts 1813 

Story, Joseph 1813 

Steinhauer, H Pennsylvania 1816 

Stewart, Walter 1816 

Southey, Robert England 1816 

Smith, William Canada 1816 

Stockton, Richard New Jersey 1816 

Smith, Charles H Netherlands 1817 

Schaeffer, F. D Pennsylvania 1817 

Swainson, James England 1817 

Steel, John H 1817 

Storer, Clement New Hampshire 1818 

Stansbury, Arthur 1818 

Stewart, Charles 1818 

Stickney, J. B 1818 

Serriestori, M 1819 

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe 1819 

Sabine, Edward England 1822 

Stewart, Arch-deacon Canada 1824 

Sparks, Jared Massachusetts 1826 

Spencer, John C New York 1827 

Sill, Theodore " 1827 

Starkweather, Samuel 1827 

Sutherland, Jacob " 1827 

Stevens, Samuel. 1827 

Savage, John " 1827 

Stebbins, Charles " 1827 

Smith, Gerrit " 1827 

Schwartz, John G 1837 

Staples, William R Rhode Island 1838 

Savage, James Massachusetts 1839 

Sullivan, William " 1839 

Stevens, William Bacon Georgia 1840 

Simms, W. Gilmore South Carolina 1843 

Salva, Jayme Spain 1844 

Spencer, Ambrose New York 1847 

Swain, David L North Carolina 1847 

Scott, Winfield Virginia 1850 

Seymour, Horatio New York 1853 

Seward, William H " 1858 

Smith, Goldwin England 1864 

103 



Sherman, William T U. S. A 1865 

Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn England 1869 

Simon, Jules France 1890 

Trumbull, Benjamin Connecticut 1810 

Teignmouth, Lord England 1813 

Thouin, Andre France 1813 

Thomas, Isaiah Massachusetts 1813 

Treadwell, John D " 1813 

Trevett, Samuel R 1813 

Tappan, Benjamin Maine 1813 

Thomson, William A 1817 

Tappen, Christopher, jr 1818 

Trullani, Leonardi 1819 

Tallmadge, James New York 1827 

Tallcott, Samuel A " 1827 

Tracy, Albert H " 1827 

Taylor, John W " 1827 

Tyler, John Virginia 1841 

Ternaux-Compans, II France 1842 

Tefft, J. K Georgia 1843 

Thonching China 1843 

Taylor, Zachary Louisiana 1849 

Tilden, Samuel J New York 1875 

Toreno, Conde de Spain 1878 

Uberto dei Nobili, Chev 1819 

Vallancey, Charles Ireland 1813 

Vaughan, Benjamin Maine 1813 

Van Royen, Henricus Netherlands 1817 

Vander Palme, Job. Hen " 1817 

Vander Kemp, Fr. A 1818 

Vaughan, John Pennsylvania 1819 

Van Schaack, Peter New York 1827 

Viele, John " 1827 

Vroom, Peter D New Jersey 1840 

Vanden Brook, J. W Amsterdam 1842 

Van Rensselaer, Stephen New York 1846 

Van Buren, Martin " 1847 

Vanden Brink, R. C. Bakhuizen Netherlands 1857 

Webster, Noah Connecticut 1810 

Wistar, Caspar Pennsylvania 1810 

Warren, John C Massachusetts 1813 

Williams, Samuel Vermont 1813 

104 



Winthrop, James Massachusetts 1813 

Winthrop, William " 1813 

Wheelock, John New Hampshire 1813 

Wilson, Joshua L Ohio 1813 

Willson, James Pennsylvania 1813 

Woods, Leonard Massachusetts 1813 

Wallace, Joshua M New Jersey 1813 

Wilkinson, James 1816 

Warden, David B France 1816 

Williams, Stephen W Massachusetts 1818 

Williams, Charles Vermont 1819 

Walsh, Robert Pennsylvania 1820 

Wilson, John Scotland 1821 

Watson, John F Pennsylvania 1823 

Wood, Silas New York 1824 

Wright, Silas " 1827 

Williams, Nathan " 1827 

Waterman, Thomas G " 1827 

Woodworth, John " 1827 

Wilkeson, Samuel " 1827 

Wadsworth, James 1827 

Watts, Charles Louisiana 1828 

Winthrop, Adam " 1836 

Winthrop, Thomas L Massachusetts 1837 

Webb, Thomas H Rhode Island 1838 

Williamson, William D Maine 1839 

Willis, William " 1839 

Wilkes, Charles New York 1842 

Williams, Sir John B England 1843 

Wall, Garrett D New Jersey 1844 

Westbrook, Cornelius D New York 1844 

Webster, Daniel Massachusetts 1847 

Woolsey, Theodore Dwight Connecticut 1858 

Winthrop, Robert C Massachusetts 1859 

Walworth, Reuben II New York 1866 

Waite, Morrison R Ohio 1877 

Young, Samuel New York 1827 

Young, Alexander Massachusetts 1841 



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PATRONS. 



•[.Bruce, Catherine Wolfe. 

Bruce, Matilda Wolfe. 

•{.Clark, Alfred Corning. 

Dexter, Henry. 

•{•Hoffman, Eugene Augustus, D.D. 

Hoffman, Samuel Verplanck. 

Huntington, Archer Milton. 

•{.Jones, John Divine. 

Kennedy, John S. 

•{.King, John Alsop. 

Morgan, J. Pierpont. 



•{.Mount, Charlotte A. 
Mount, Susan. 
•{.Schell, Mrs. Augustus. 
Schell, F. Robert. 
►>Schell, Robert. 
•{.Schermerhorn, William C. 
Sherman, Charles A. 
•{.Stuart, Mrs. Robert L. 
Thompson, Mrs. Frederick 
•{•Vanderbilt, Cornelius. 
Vanderbilt, George W. 



•{.Deceased. 

Patrons 

By Succession. 

Baker, Charlotte S. Maccaffil, Charlotte Mount. 

Clark, Stephen Carlton. Schermerhorn, Frederic Augustus. 

Hoffman, Mrs. Eugene Augustus. Vanderbilt, Alfred Gwynne. 



106 



FELLOWS. 



Astor, William Waldorf. 

Auchmuty, Mrs. Richard T. 

•{•Austin, William. 

•{.Avery, Samuel P. 

•{.Babeoek, Samuel D. 

Baker, George F. 

•{•Banyer, Goldsborough. 

Beekman, Gerard. 

Billings, Frederick. 

Bliss, Cornelius N. 

•{.Bliss, George. 

Clark, Edward S. 

•{.Constable, James M. 

•{.Cook, Henry H. 

Cutting, R. Fulton. 

Cutting, W. Bayard. 

•{.Delano, Franklin H. 

•{•Dows, David. 

•{.Dubois, Abram, M.D. 

Ely, Ambrose Iv. 

Falmestock, Harris C. 

•{.Fayerweather, Daniel B. 

•{.Field, Benjamin H. 

•{.Fish, Nicholas. 

Greene, Martin E. 

Greenwood, Isaac J. 

•{•Herrman, Henry. 

Herrman, Mrs. Henry. 

•{.Hoffman, Mrs. Charles Frederick, 

Hoffman, Mrs. Eugene Augustus. 

•J-Hoyt, Charles A. 

•{.Huntington, Collis P. 

•{.Iselin, Adrian. 

Isham, William B. 

Jackson, Frederic Wendell. 

Jackson, Theodore F. 

Jackson, William H. 



Jesup, Mrs. Morris K. 
►[•Kennedy, Rachel L. 
King, Mary Rhinelander. 
Langdon, Woodbury G. 
Lanier, Charles. 
Lawton, Mrs. James M. 
►[•Livingston, Robert J. 
•{.Marquand, Henry G. 
Mills, Darius O. 
Morton, Levi P. 
Parish, Daniel, jr. 
Parsons, Mrs. John E. 
Phipps, Henry. 
Phoenix, Lloyd. 
Phoenix, Phillips. 
.{.Potter, Orlando B. 
•{.Pyne, Percy R. 
•{.Rhinelander, Julia. 
Rhinelander, Serena. 
4. Rogers, Mrs. Charles H. 
•{.Skidmore, W 7 illiam L. 
Sloan, Samuel. 
Sloane, William D. 
Speyer, James. 
•{.Stewart, David. 
Stokes, Caroline Phelps. 
Storm, Clarence. 
Sturges, Frederick. 
Thome, Phebe Anna. 
►[•Tiffany, Charles L. 
Tilford, Frank. 
Vanderbilt, William K. 
Von Post. Herman C. 
•{.Weekes, John A. 
White, Mrs. Joseph M. 
•{.Williams, George G. 
«{«Wintkrop, Robert. 



•{.Deceased. 



107 



ANNUAL AND LIFE MEMBERS— 1905. 



Abbe, Cleveland 1880 

fAbbe, Mrs. Robert 1897 

f Abeel, George 1896 

f Adams, Edward D 1904 

f Adee, George Augustus 1857 

|Adee, Philip H 1857 

fAldrick, Mrs. James Herman. . 1902 

t Alexander, Charles Beatty 1896 

Alexander, John Franklin 1871 

Anderson, John, jr 1902 

fAndrews, Blanche L 1887 

fAndrews, James B 1857 

fAndrews, William L 1857 

Anjou, Gustave 1903 

f Appleby, Charles E 1857 

°tAstor, William Waldorf 1879 

"fAuchmuty, Mrs. Richard T. .1901 

Augustine, Clark Bell 1904 

f Avery, Samuel P., jr 1903 

Aymar, Benjamin 1898 

Ayres, Stephen Beckwith 1902 

f Bacon, Charlotte V 1888 

Bacon, Leon Brooks 1902 

Baker, Charles, jr 1903 

Baker, Frederic 1898. 

°Baker, George F 1879 

Balch, Collins L 1901 

Baldwin, George V. N 1888 

fBall, Thomas R 1902 

Banks, David, jr 1898 

Banks, James Lenox 1896 

Banta, Theodore M 1887 

Barclay, David 1901 

fBarger, Milton S 1896 

fBarger, Samuel F 1883 



fBarnes, Cora F 1903 

Barney, Charles T 1902 

fBarron, John C, M.D 1864 

Bartlett, Franklin 1880 

f Barton, Oliver Grant 1857 

Baylies, Edmund L 1893 

°tBeekman, Gerard 1875 

f Beekman, James William 1886 

Beekman, John Neilson, M.D . . 1897 

Beekman, Mrs. William B 1902 

f Belcher, Henry W 1857 

fBell, Jared Weed 1897 

fBelmont, August 1902 

fBelmont, Oliver H. P 1888 

fBelmont, Perry 1857 

f Benedict, Erastus C 1867 

f Benedict, Henry II 1902 

f Benedict, James 1864 

f Benkard, Henry R 1857 

fBenson, Charles B 1905 

fBenson, Egbert 1888 

fBenson, Robert 1887 

Berwind, Edward J 1901 

Betts, Frederick H 1875 

f Betts, George W 1857 

fBevan, Llewelyn D., D.D. . . 1880 

fBickmore, Albert S 1869 

f Bigelow, Poultney 1889 

fBigelow, L. Horatio 1903 

°f Billings, Frederick 1893 

Bingham, George F 1903 

f Bishop, Cortlandt Field 1871 

fBishop, David Wolfe, jr 1875 

Bishop, Louis Faugeres, M.D . . 1905 

Bispham, William 1903 

fBissell, Rev. Pelham St. G. . . .1887 



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°tBliss, Cornelius N 1877 

fBliss, Cornelius N., jr 1897 

fBogert, Henry Lawrence 1892 

Bolton, Reginald Pelham 1902 

Bond, Frank S 1893 

Bookstaver, Henry W 1869 

fBoorman, J. Marcus 1854 

Bostwick, Henry A 1897 

Bosworth, Mrs. Francke II 1902 

Boucher, Charles 1900 

f Bowen, Clarence W 1885 

fBreese, Eloise Lawrence 1902 

Brett, Cornelius, D.D 1905 

Brewster, Charles O 1902 

Brewster, Samuel Dwight 1900 

f Briggs, Charles A., D.D 1884 

Britton, Charles P 1893 

f Brodhead, Eugenia 1874 

f Brooks, Emerson 1899 

Brower, John L 1905 

Brower, William L 1880 

Brown, Rev. Abbott 1892 

Brown, Addison 18G3 

Brown, Charles Hilton 1904 

fBrown, Edward F 1875 

fBrown, Egerton 1875 

Brown, J. Romaine 1905 

Brown, John Crosby 1873 

fBrown, John Potts 1852 

fBrown, Robert 1 1851 

f Browning, J. Hull 1903 

Brownne, John S 1901 

*fBruce, Matilda Wolfe 1871 

f Brugler, Rev. Charles Edward. 1904 

fBudd, Mrs. William A 1902 

Buchman, Albert 1905 

Bulkley, Edward Addison 1902 

Bulkley, Edwin M 1905 

Bull, CharlesC 1897 

f Bull, Robert Maclay 1902 

f Bull, William Laiunan 1900 

fBurdge, Franklin 1880 

Burgess, Edward S 1903 

f Burrell, David J., D.D 1896 

f Burton, Thomas J 1901 



Butler, Emily O 1902 

Butler, Nicholas Murray 1905 

f Cameron, Mrs. A. Scott 1 896 

f Cannon, Henry W 1895 

fCarhart, Amory Sibley 1882 

Carney, Sydney H., jr., M.D. . . . 1893 

fCarpender, William 1892 

f Carpenter, Charles L 1904 

f Carroll, Royal Phelps 1888 

f Carter, Henry C 1901 

Carter, James C 1867 

f Castree, John W 1902 

f Chamberlain, Daniel Drew. . . .1857 
Chamberlain, Jacob Chester. . . . 1899 
Chamberlain, Leander T., D.D. 1897 

Chapman, Henry T 1901 

fChauncey, Elihu 1882 

f Chauncey, Henry 1857 

f Cheesman, T. Matlack, M.D. . 1904 

Chew, Beverly 1898 

Clark, Alzamore H 1905 

°fClark, Edward S 1901 

f Clark, Henry Austin 1899 

f Clark, William A 1895 

Clarke, Charles L 1897 

Clarke, George C 1896 

fClarkson, Banyer 1892 

f Clarkson, Margaret Livingstonl885 

fClarkson, Matthew 1853 

Clinch, Edward S 1897 

f Clute, Rev. Robert F 1857 

Cochrane, John W 1874 

fCodman, Ogden, jr 1904 

Cohn, Adolphe 1903 

fCole, Edward F 1904 

f Coles, Henry Rutgers Renisen . 1894 
Coles, Jonathan Ackerman,M . D . 1 90 1 

Collamore, Marion Davis 1896 

Collier, Peter F 1905 

f Collier, Price 1905 

fCollyer, Robert, D.D 1882 

Comfort, Randall 1905 

fComstock, Frederick H 1889 

Conkling, Nathaniel W., D.D. . . 1883 



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"("Constant, Samuel Victor 

|Cook, Arthur Peters 

Cook, Charles T 

°tCook, Henry H 

Cooper, Edward 

Cooper, Theodore 

fCorlies, Joseph W., jr 

Cotton, Louis Kossuth 

fCoxe, Macgrane 

f Crane, Albert 

Crane, Frank W 

Crane, Warren C 

f Crimmins, John D 

Cromwell, David W 

f Crosby, Ernest Howard 

fCross, Mrs. C. Vanderbilt 

fCruikshank, Warren 

Cumrnings, George F 

f Curtis, William Edmund 

Cuslnnan, Norman 

°Cutting, R. Fulton 

°fCutting, W. Bayard 

Darlington, Charles Francis . . . . 

f Dart, Russel 

f Davenport, Mrs. Ira 

Davies, Julien T 

Da vies, William Gilbert 

Davis, Chandler 

fDavis, Fellowes 

Davis, Gherardi 

fDavis, Mrs. Gherardi 

fDavis, John W. A 

fDavis, Vernon M 

Dayton, Charles W 

Debevoise, George 

De Bost, William L 

f De Forest, Robert Weeks 

f De Kay, Charles 

fDelafield, Albert 

f Delafield, Joseph Livingston. . . 
fDelafield, Julia Livingston 
fDelafield, Maturin Livingston . 
fDelafield, Maturin Livingston 
J r 



1893 Delafield, Richard 1901 

1864 fDe Lancey, Edward Floyd .... 1851 

1877 Delano, Warren, jr 1896 

1882 Delmonico, L. Crist 1902 

1850 fDe Luze, Philip Schuyler 1895 

1895 fDe Meli, Henry G. D 1895 

1851 Depew, Chauncey M 1869 

1903 fDe Peyster, C. Augusta 1902 

1898 fDe Peyster, Elizabeth V. R . . . . 1902 

1873 fDe Peyster, Frederic J 1852 

1897 fDe Peyster, John Watts 1850 

1896 fDe Peyster, Win. Moore Donganl897 

1899 De Puy, Henry F 1902 

1904 f Derby, Richard IL, M.D 1882 

1884 fDe Witt, William G 1889 

1903 *f Dexter, Henry 1862 

1905 Dexter, Stanley W 1897 

1882 fDey, Anthony 1863 

1901 fDey, J. Warren Scott 1865 

1905 fDey, Richard Varick 1895 

1888 fDeyo, Robert E 1897 

1888 f Dibble, William A 1857 

Dill, Josephine II 1903 

1902 Dimond, Thomas 1901 

1855 Dininny, Ferial C 1902 

1905 Dix, John Adams 1905 

1880 DLx, Morgan, D.D 1879 

1877 fDLxon, George, jr 1857 

1903 fDodd, John M., jr 1894 

1896 Dodd, Samuel C. T 1894 

1894 fDodge, Anson G. P 1870 

1889 Dodge, Cleveland II 1883 

1903 fDominick, Marinus Willett. . . . 1896 

1903 fDornin, William C 1862 

1897 Douglas, William II 1901 

1903 fDows, Tracy 1905 

1905 Dresser, D. Le Roy 1902 

1866 DrummondjI. Weyman 1905 

1881 Dugro, P. Henry 1891 

1891 fDuncan, William B 1857 

1893 Dunning, William A 1900 

1891 f Du Pont, Henry A 1905 

1874 Duryee, Joseph Rankin, D.D . . . 1902 
D wight, Frederick 1904 

1899 fDwight, Rev. Melatiali Everettl900 

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Eaton, Bradley L 

fEaton, Sherburne Blake 

t Edmonds, John Worth 

f Einstein, Lewis 

fEliot, Ellsworth, M.D 

fElliott, Frederick B 

Elseffer, Mrs. William L 

°fEly, Ambrose K 

Embury, Aymar 

Emmet, Thomas Addis, M.D . . 

fEno, AmosF 

fEvans, William T 

fEverson, George 

°Fahnestock, Harris C 

fFairchild, Charles S 

fFaye, Thomas 

fField, Cortlandt de Peyster. . . 
fField, Mrs. Cortlandt de Pey 

ster 

fFish, Mrs. Nicholas 

fFish, Stuyvesant 

Fitzgerald, James 

Fleitmann, Ewald 

f Folsom, George W 

Forbes, Rev. Elmer Severance . 

Ford, Worthington C 

fFoster, Frederic de Peyster. . . 

Foster, Scott 

fFoulke, Bayard Fish 

fFox, Austen G 

fFrancis, Valentine Mott, M.D 

Fraser, Horatio N 

Freedman, John J 

French, Amos Tuck 

fFrenche, James 

Friend, Meyer M 

Frissell, Algeron S 

Frye, Jed 

Fuller, Frank 

fGallatin, Albert 

fGallatin, Albert Eugene 

tGallatin, Frederic 

fGallatin, R. Horace 



1901 Galot, Alphonse 1877 

1877 Gardiner, Asa Bird 1871 

1891. Gawtry, Lewis B 1904 

1902 f Gebhard, William II 1868 

1865 f Geer, Walter 1902 

1857 Geissenhainer, Jacob A 1881 

1897 fGibbs, Theodore Kane 1891 

1857 Gibson, George Rutledge 1902 

1872 fGihon, John 1857 

1861 fGihon, William 1852 

1888 Gilder, Richard Watson 1881 

1896 fGiles, Stephen W 1896 

1857 Gilsey, Frederick C 1905 

Glenney, William P 1905 

1879 f Glover, Mrs. James A 1886 

1882 f Goodwin, James J 1891 

1871 fGould, Edwin 1896 

1850 f Grant, R. Suydara 1857 

Gray, John Clinton 1873 

1885 f Greene, Alister 1896 

1901 Greene, Edward 1875 

1875 f Greene, John W., M.D 1854 

1905 °Greene, Martin E 1870 

1903 Greene, Richard Henry 1896 

1858 fGreenough, John 1891 

1896 °Greenwood, Isaac J 1858 

1892 Greenwood, Langdon, jr 1893 

1874 f Gregory, Charles 1902 

1902 f Gregory, Henry E 1886 

1903 f Griffen, Benjamin 1874 

1872 fGriffith, Daniel J 1901 

1858 f Guggenheim, Murray 1901 

1899 f Gunther, John Jacob 1904 

1873 

1888 Hackstaff, Charles L 1898 

1853 fHackstaff, Mrs. Charles L 1903 

1902 f Hadden, John Aspinwall 1866 

1903 f Haines, Samuel B 1877 

1902 Haldane, Mary H 1903 

1892 Hall, Edward Hagaman 1902 

Hall, Frank Oliver, D.D 1905 

1905 fllall, Mary F 1901 

1903 Halpin, Francis 1891 

1870 f Halsey, Frederick R 1900 

1892 Halsey, Richard T. H 1896 

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Hamilton, Edmond H 1890 

Hamilton, William Gaston 1889 

tHarbeck, Charles John 1897 

tHarbeck, Charles T 1857 

Hardley, J. Wheeler 1902 

Harison, Mrs. George D. L 1897 

Harper, Francis P 1897 

fHarper, John 1885 

f Harriman, Edward Henry 1885 

Harris, William II 1903 

Hasbrouck, Mrs. Frederick 1900 

Haskell, J. Amory 1895 

Hatch, Albert J 1870 

fHavemeyer, Frederic C 1899 

fHavemeyer, Henry O 1899 

fHavemeyer, John C 1857 

fHavemeyer, William F 1891 

f Havens, Henry P 1882 

f Hawes, Gilbert Ray 1895 

f Hawkes, McDougall 1898 

f Hawley, Thomas R 1864 

Headley, Russel 1901 

Healey, Warren M 1888 

fHearn, George A 1895 

Heminway, Homer 1882 

f Hendricks, Albert 1869 

f Herrick, John J 1852 

°fHerrman, Mrs. Henry 1889 

fHess, Selmar 1903 

Higgins, Eugene 1889 

f Higginson, James J 1899 

Hill, Charles B 1901 

Hill, Edward Bruce 1896 

Hillhouse, Charles B 1897 

Hine, Charles Gilbert 1905 

Hinman, William K 1863 

fHinton, John H, M.D 1877 

Hitchcock, Ripley 1905 

Hobbs, Frederick G 1902 

f Hoe, Robert, jr 1852 

Hoffman, Charles Frederick, jr. . 1903 
Hoffman, Mrs. Charles F., jr. . . 1903 
Hoffman, Charles Gouverneur. . 1905 
*°f Hoffman, Mrs. Eugene A. . . . 1901 
*fHoffman, Samuel Verplanck. .1901 



fHoffman, Mrs. Samuel Ver- 
planck 1903 

Hoffman, William M. V 1897 

Hoffman, Mrs. William M. V. . . 1903 

fHolden, Edwin B 1900 

fHolden, James C 1855 

Holland, Joseph 1899 

f Hopkins, George B 1902 

Hoppin, William Warner 1871 

Hotchkin, Walter D 1905 

Hubbell, George W 1895 

f Hunter, Frederick W 1882 

*f Huntington, Archer Milton.. .1890 

Huntington, Charles R 1896 

f Huntington, Daniel 1846 

Huntington, Frederick J 1881 

Huntington, William R., D.D. .1884 

Hurlbut, Theodore D 1893 

f Hurry, Renwick Clifton 1903 

Hutchinson, Cary T 1894 

f Hutchinson, William J 1877 

f Hyatt, Abram M 1902 

f Hyde, Clarence M 1891 

Hyde, Edwin Francis 1891 

Hyde, Frederick E., M.D 1892 

Hyde, Henry St. John 1904 

fHyde, James H 1903 

Hyman, Mrs. David M 1902 

fHyslop, George L., M.D 1866 

Ireland, John B 1886 

Irving, Walter 1890 

°flselin, Adrian 1863 

f Iselin, Adrian, jr 1868 

f Iselin, Columbus O'Donnel . . . 1873 

Iselin, William E 1873 

flsham, Charles 1885 

°flsham, William B 1885 

fives, Brayton 1905 

Jackson, Charles Fred. Have- 

meyer 1899 

°f Jackson, Frederic Wendell. . .1892 

f Jackson, Rev. Samuel M 1888 

°f Jackson, Theodore F 1897 



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°t Jackson, William H 1898 

Jacobi, Abraham, M.D 1872 

Jaffray, Robert 1890 

t Jarvis, Jay 1863 

f Jay, William 1852 

f Jennings, Oliver G 1893 

Jesup, Morris K 1854 

°tJesup, Mrs. Morris K 1888 

t Johnson, Henry W 1852 

Johnston, Henry P 1882 

t Johnston, J. Herbert 1897 

t Johnston, John H 1862 

Joline, Adrian H 1893 

f Jones, Charles Landon 1900 

f Jones, Rev. Henry L 1857 

f Jones, James H 1882 

Jones, Mrs. Oliver Livingston. .1902 

t Jordan, Stanley 1900 

Judge, JohnH 1902 

Kane, S. Nicholson 1897 

fKelby, Charles Hendre 1899 

fKelby, Robert Hendre 1893 

fKelby, Thomas 1891 

Kelley, Frank Bergen 1904 

*fKennedy, John S 1883 

fKennin, John L 1863 

Kent, William 1896 

fKeteltas, Alice 1902 

Keys, Alice M 1905 

fKing, Mrs. Charles Ray 1902 

fKing, Edward 1888 

fKing, Ellen 1889 

fKing, George Gordon 1898 

fKing, John Alsop 1900 

°fKing, Mary Rhinelander 1889 

Kip, William F 1901 

f Kirtland, Anna T. E 1865 

Kohler, Max J 1903 

Lacombe, E. Henry 1904 

fLane, Smith E 1850 

°fLangdon, Woodbury G 1878 

°f Lanier, Charles 1857 

f Lansing, Mrs. Abraham 1904 



Larkin, John 1895 

fLathrop, Edward, D.D 1854 

Lawrence, Richard H 1900 

fLawson, Leonidas M 1874 

°Lawton, Mrs. James M 1900 

Leaycraft, J. Edgar 1887 

fLe Boutillier, Charles 1896 

Leeds, Henry 1905 

Leeds, William 1905 

fLefferts, Marshall C 1903 

f Leggett, Francis H 1901 

f Leggett, Francis W 1902 

f Leland, Charles H 1879 

Lesher, Arthur L 1884 

Levussove, Moses S 1905 

Levy, Elias Henry 1881 

Lewis, John N 1897 

fLibbey, Jonas Marsh 1877 

fLibbey, Mrs. William 1877 

fLibbey, William, jr 1880 

f Lincoln, James M 1891 

Lindsay, John D 1904 

Livermore, John R 1904 

f Livingston, Johnston 1883 

f Livingston, William S., jr 1879 

f Lockman, De Witt M 1890 

fLockman, JohnT 1884 

Loewy, Benno 1894 

f Logan, WalterS 1892 

Loomis, Archibald G 1902 

Lord, FranklinB 1902 

Lord, Joseph E. P 1900 

fLoring, Daniel A 1887 

f Loubat, Joseph F 1871 

fLow, JosephT 1901 

f Low, Seth 1890 

Ludlow, James B 1901 

Luf burrow, Elizabeth S 1903 

fLummis, William 1877 

f Lund, Dagny Engelsted 1905 

fLynch, James D 1882 

Lyon, A. Maynard 1902 



fMcAlpin, Charles W 1902 

McCafferty, Robert 1894 



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McCagg, Louis Butler 1900 

McCall, John A 1899 

fMcClintock, Emory 1895 

fMcCord, William H 1902 

McCoun, Henry T 1902 

fMcKesson, George Clinton 1873 

fMcKesson, Irving 1899 

fMcKesson, John, jr 1857 

McKim, Robert V 1898 

fMcLanahan, George W 1882 

fMaclay, Isaac Walker 1878 

McLean, Donald 1899 

McLellan, Charles Wood- 
berry 1905 

McLellan, Hugh 1905 

fMacy, Nelson 1902 

Madison, Winfield S 1904 

Madison, Mrs. Winfield S 1904 

Maginnis, William H 1905 

Mahler, Edward J 1876 

fMaitland, Alexander 1886 

fMallet-Prevost, Severo 1901 

fMallett, Edward J 1856 

Man, William 1890 

fMarkoe, Francis H., M.D 1889 

Marks, George Edwin 1896 

fMarquand, Allan 1886 

fMarquand, Henry 1881 

Marsh, John Edward 1896 

f Marshall, Louis 1905 

Martin, Susan Tabor 1893 

Mather, Frank J., jr '. 1901 

Maury, Charles W 1891 

Maury, Henry T 1891 

Meeks, Edwin B 1889 

fMerrall, William J 1875 

fMerritt, Douglass 1867 

tMersereau, John W 1857 

fMersereau, Nicholas R 1857 

Messenger, Maria Gerard 1893 

Meyrowitz, Emile B 1901 

fMiller, George Macculloch . . . .1881 

fMiller, M. Rumsey 1901 

fMilliken, David 1857 

°MiIls, Darius O 1902 



fMitchell, Albert M. P 1890 

fMitchell, Benjamin G 1902 

Mitchell, Edward 1903 

tMitchill, Bleecker N 1884 

Moffat, George Barclay 1905 

Moffat, R. Burnham 1898 

fMoldenke, Rev. Charles E 1886 

Moller, Peter 1901 

f Montgomery, Thomas II 1874 

■j-Moore, JacobB 1878 

Moore, William H. H 1852 

Moran, Charles 1903 

f Moreau, Charles C 1861 

Morgan, George H 1881 

*Morgan, J. Pierpont 1881 

Morgan, Junius Spencer 1902 

fMorison, John A 1867 

fMorrell, William H 1865 

Morris, Fordham 1870 

fMorris, Henry Lewis 1874 

tMorris, Newbold 1901 

fMorrison, David M 1857 

fMorrison, George Austin 1892 

fMorrison, William E. 1857 

f Morse, Charles W 1902 

°Morton, LeviP 1855 

Moss, Frank 1905 

fMossman, John M 1884 

Mott, Hopper Striker 1902 

*fMount, Susan 1882 

Munsell, Charles E 1892 

Murray, J. Archibald 1885 

Myers, Edward 1896 

Nash, John McLean 1902 

Nash, William Alexander 1902 

f Navarro, Jose F. de 1880 

Neeser, John G 1905 

Neill, Henry Harmon 1903 

fNelson, William 1893 

fNesbitt, George F 1857 

tNichols, Acosta. 1903 

Nichols, Anthony Dey 1903 

tNichols, Effingham H 1892 

Nichols, George Livingston. . . .1897 



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fNickerson, Mrs. Thomas W., 

jr 1903 

fNisbet, William F 1900 

Noble, Francis L 1903 

fNorrie, Ambrose Lanfear 1888 

fNorrie, Adam Gordon 1888 

fNorrie, Gordon 1852 

fNorrie, Van Home, M.D 1888 

Norton, Edward L 1894 

f Oakley, Henry A 1848 

f Oakman, Walter G 1896 

Odell, Hamilton 1863 

Odell, Hammond 1899 

Oettinger, Sigmund 1902 

Ogden, Henry A 1893 

fOgden, William B 1887, 

fOglesby, Mrs. Joseph H 1904 

Olcott, J. Van Vechten 1897 

Olcott, Mrs. J. Van Vechten .... 1903 

fOpdyck, Leonard E 1888 

fOrvis, Charles Eustis 1903 

f Orvis, Edwin W 1903 

Osgood, Herbert L 1893 

fOsgood, JohnC 1890 

Oudin, Lucien 1900 

Paddock, Eugene H 1891 

f Page, Edward D 1893 

Paige, Edward Winslow 1893 

°f Parish, Daniel, jr 1882 

fParish, Henry 1901 

f Parish, Wainwright 1901 

f Parker, Mrs. Gilbert 1888 

f Parker, Willard, M.D 1857 

Parris, Edward L 1880 

fParsons, John E 1901 

°f Parsons, Mrs. John E 1877 

fParsons, William Decatur 1895 

Patton, Charles L 1892 

Peck, Charles E 1901 

fPeck, Guy Dayton 1895 

fPeckham, Walton M 1857 

f Pell, Frederick Aycrigg 1877 

fPell, Howland 1889 



Pell, John L. E 1903 

fPelletreau, William S 1899 

fPenfold, Edmund 1852 

f Penfold, William Hall 1857 

Perkins, J. Deming 1859 

Perry, Alexander 1903 

Peters, Mrs. Edward McClure. . 1902 

fPeters, Samuel T 1886 

f Peters, William Richmond. . . .1904 

Phillips, N. Taylor 1894 

°Phipps, Henry 1901 

°fPha-nix, Lloyd 1887 

°fPhcmix, Phillips 1887 

Piderit, Marie Alma 1900 

Piatt, Frank H 1890 

Plympton, Gilbert Motier 1897 

Poillon, William 1905 

Poor, Henry W 1891 

fPost, Abram S 1884 

fPost, Henry A. V 1888 

Potter, Frederick 1902 

fPotter, Rt. Rev. Henry C, 

D.D 1868 

Powell, William R 1902 

Powell, Wilson M 1865 

Pratt. Dallas B 1897 

f Prentice, William P 1867 

fPrime, William C 1859 

Prince, J. Dyneley 1903 

Prince, Mrs. J. Dyneley 1903 

Proctor, William Ross 1902 

Pryer, Charles 1877 

Purdon, John 1895 

Purdy, J. Harsen 1903 

Putnam, Frederic Ward 1899 

fPyle, James Tolman 1902 

fPyne, M. Taylor 1888 

Quintard, Edward, M.D 1895 

Quintard, George W 1861 

Rainey, Thomas, M.D 1900 

Randell, James Wells 1905 

f Ransom, J. Henry 1865 

fRaven, Anton A 1901 



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fRead, Harmon Pumpelly 

fRead, John Meredith, jr 

fRead, William A 

t Redmond, Mrs. Henry S 

f Reed, Josiah II 

Reid, Wallace 

f Rhinelander, Frederic W., jr. 

Rhinelander, Philip 

fRhinelander, Rev. Philip Mer 

cer 

c fRhinelander, Serena 

Rhinelander, T. J. Oakley 

fRhinelander, William 

Rhoades, John Harsen 

Rhoades, Lyman 

f Rich, Joseph S 

Richards, Jeremiah 

Richardson, Rosell L 

Rikcr, John Jackson 

fRiker, John L 

f Riker, Samuel 

f Rives, George L 

f Robb, J. Hampden 

f Robinson, James A 

f Roche, Rev. Spencer S 

Rock, Matthew 

f Rockefeller, John D., jr 

fRoelker, Alfred 

f Romaine, Louis T 

f Roosevelt, Robert B., jr 

Root, Elihu 

Rothschild, Jacob 

fRowell, George P 

fRowland, H. Edwards 

Rowland, Thomas Fitch 

Rusch, Henry A 

tRussell, Archilbald D 

fRussell, Charles Howland 

Ruthrauff, Charles C 

f Rutter, Robert 

Ryer, Frederick Ridabock 

f Ryno, Crowell H 

fSabin, Joseph F 

Sackett, Henry Woodward 



1885 Salter, Wm. Tibbits 1859 

1885 Sanford, George B 1905 

1901 fSanford, Henry G 1903 

1889 f Sanxay, Theodore F 1904 

1865 Satterlee, F. Le Roy, M.D 1887 

1904 Sawyer, Philip 1901 

1894 fSchell, Edward H 1883 

1890 *f Schell, F. Robert 1867 

fSchell, Mrs. F. Robert 1902 

1888 Schermerhorn, Charles A 1883 

1888 fSchieffelin, George R 1894 

1896 Schieffelin, Schuyler 1890 

1857 fSchieffelin, William Jay 1904 

1869 fSchiff, Jacob H 1889 

1893 Schroeder, J. Langdon 1901 

1903 f Schuyler, Philip 1876 

1899 Schwab, Gustav H 1888 

1895 Scott, Edward W 1902 

1891 Scudder, Moses L 1897 

1850 Scudder, Willard 1893 

1888 fSeaman, Louis Livingston, 

1891 M.D 1903 

1872 f Servoss, George Hancock 1856 

1852 fSeton, Alfred L 1857 

1887 fSeton, Robert, D.D 1883 

1902 Seymour, Morris Woodruff 1895 

1901 Shaler, Alexander 1867 

1882 Sheldon, James O 1885 

1902 *f Sherman, Charles A 1888 

1890 fSherman, Mrs. Charles A 1902 

1873 fSherman, Corinne A 1904 

1891 fSherman, George 1884 

1870 fSherman, John T 1889 

1874 fSherman, William Watts 1902 

1863 f Sherwood, S. Clinton 1904 

1898 Sherwood, Samuel 1892 

1874 f Shirley, Rufus George 1905 

1884 Short, Edward Lyman 1903 

1904 f Shrady, John, M.D 1865 

1887 Sickles, Daniel E 1896 

1896 fSiegel, Mrs. Henry 1902 

1867 fSilliman, Charles A 1863 

fSilliman, Harper 1904 

1892 f Sistare, William H. M 1870 

1904 Slade, Mrs. William Gerry 1903 

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fSlawson, George L 

°fSloan, Samuel 

fSloane, Charles W 

fSIoane, Thomas O' Conor 

°fSloane, William D 

fSloane, William Milligan 

Smith, AlfredH 

Smith, Chandler 

fSmith, Charles H. L 

fSmith, Cornelius B., D.D 

fSmith, George Williamson. 

D.D.... 

Smith, Hiram 

Smith, Isaac P 

fSmith, J. Augustus 

Smith, James Henry 

Smith, L. Bayard 

fSmith, S. Newton 

fSmith, Stephen, M.D 

fSmith, Thomas E. V 

Smith, Walter M 

Smith, Wm. Alexander 

fSmith, William W 

fSmith, William Wheeler 

fSmull, Thomas 

Smyth, Herbert C 

fSoutlunayd, Charles F 

Spears, Harry D 

Speir, Archibald W 

°f Speyer, James 

f Spofford, Paul N 

Squires, Grant 

Stanton, Mrs. John 

Stanton, Lucius M 

Stearns, John Noble 

f Steers, James R 

Steinmuller, George A 

f Sterling, Charles Burr 

f Stevens, Byam K 

Stevens, Rev. C. Ellis 

Stevens, Edward L 

f Stevens, Frederic W T 

f Stevens, John Austin 

f Steward, John, jr 

Stewart, John A 



1902 Stewart, Wm. Rhinelander 1894 

1902 fStillman, James 1887 

1877 Stillwell, John Edwin, M.D .... 1901 

1877 f Stimson, Darnel M., M.D 1903 

1873 Stimson, Mrs. Daniel M 1897 

1898 f Stokes, Anson Phelps 1891 

1902 °f Stokes, Caroline Phelps 1889 

1904 f Stokes, I. N. Phelps 1900 

1857 fStokes, James 1864 

1867 Stone.Mason A 1902 

°fStorm, Clarence 1902 

1900 f Storm, Edna Graham 1903 

1895 f Storm, Mabel Louisa 1903 

1905 f Straus, Oscar S 1884 

1904 Sturges, Henry C 1874 

1898 °f Sturges, Frederick 1880 

1901 fSturges, Rev. Isaac C 1904 

1904 Sturgis, Frank K 1900 

1867 Sturgis, Mrs. Frank K 1900 

1888 f Stuyvesant, A. Van Home 1857 

1885 f Stuyvesant, Robert Reade 1 857 

1858 f Stuyvesant, Robert V. R 1857 

1903 Stuyvesant, Rutherfurd 1869 

1854 f Suckley, Robert B 1896 

1857 fSuydam, Walter L 1903 

1896 fSwan, Edward H, jr 1881 

1864 fSwan, Otis D 1850 

1895 

1901 Taber, Harriette 1905 

1901 fTailer, Edward Neufville 1898 

1845 Taintor, Charles N 1905 

1905 Talcott, Rev. J. Frederick 1901 

1896 f Tallmadge, William C 1864 

1905 fTaylor, George C 1857 

1882 fTaylor, Henry R 1905 

1897 fTaylor, Theodorus B 1851 

1905 Tenney, Charles H 1903 

1897 Tenney, Daniel G 1895 

1863 fTerhune, Thomas 1861 

1905 f Terry, Roderick, D.D 1882 

1905 Thompson, David W 1902 

1903 fThompson, Frederick Diodati . 1866 

1848 *fThompson, Mrs. Frederick F.1901 

1857 fThompson, Walter Ledyard . . . 1896 

1850 Thorn, Leonard Mortimer 1874 

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fThorne, Jonathan 

°tThorne, Phebe Anna 

fThorne, Samuel 

fThorne, Wm. Van Schoon- 

hoven 

f Tiemann, Hermann N 

"fTilford, Frank 

f Tinker, James 

Todd, Charles Burr 

Toler, William P 

fTolles, Brainard 

Tompkins, Calvin 

Tompkins, Hamilton B 

Tooker, Gabriel Mead 

Totten, William II. B 

Towne.PaulR 

Townsend, Mrs. Edward M 

Townsend, Howard 

Townsend, S. DeLancey, D.D. . 

fTrask, Spencer 

f Treadwell, George A 

Treat, Edward A 

f Treat, Erastus B 

f Trevor, Henry Graff 

Tuck, Edward 

f Tucker, Edwin 

f Tucker, Mrs. John J 

f Tucker, Walter Curtis 

Tweedie, M. Stanley 

Ulmann, Albert 



fVan Alstyne, Lawrence 

Van Amringe, Guy 

Van Amringe, John Howard. . . . 

Van Beuren, Henry S 

Van Cortlandt, Augustus 

*fVanderbilt, George W 

°fVanderbilt, William K 

Vander Veer, Albert, M.D 

Van De Water, George R., D.D 

Van Hoesen, George M 

f Van Nest, Mrs. Alexander T. . . 

VanNorden, Warner 

Van Rensselaer, A. Cortlandt. . . 



18.37 fVan Rensselaer, Mrs. John 

1891 King 1898 

1902 Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Schuyler . 1 902 

Van Slyck, George Finch 1900 

1897 fVan Slyck, George W 1871 

1899 f Van Vechten, A. V. W 1858 

1902 f Van Woert, Francis G 1857 

1871 Vermilye, Ashbel G., D.D 1893 

1890 Vermilye, Daniel B 1903 

1902 Ver Planck, William G 1 896 

1901 Villard, Oswald Garrison 1898 

1905 f Vincent, Marvin R., D.D 1901 

1 874 °f Von Post, Herman Casper .... 1895 
1861 

1897 Waddington, George 1890 

1904 f Wagner, Frederic C 1903 

1900 Wait, William B., jr 1893 

1890 f Walker, Alexander 1903 

1902 fWalker, Rt. Rev. Wm. D., 

1905 D.D 1865 

1892 Wandell, Francis Livingston .... 1904 
1900 Wandell, Townsend 1889 

1893 fWard, Edmund A 1883 

1893 Ward, Francis E 1902 

1877 f Ward, Henry Marion 1901 

1900 fWard, J. Otis 1861 

1902 fWard, Sylvester L. H 1893 

1900 Warren, William R 1 902 

1904 fWaterbury, John 1 1894 

f Watson, Rev. J. Henry 1902 

1903 f Watson, Mrs. J. Henry 1903 

f Watts, George Burghall 1863 

1895 f Webb, Wm. Seward, M.D .... 1882 

1903 fWebster, David, M.D 1889 

1903 fWebster, Sidney 1867 

1892 f Wedemeyer, Arnold J. D 1885 

1884 fWeekes, Alice Delano 1900 

1884 fWeekes, Henry de Forest 1895 

1878 fWeekes, John A 1883 

1905 f Welch, Alexander M 1896 

1904 f Welles, Edgar T . . , 1889 

1885 f Welles, Mrs. John 1902 

1902 f Welsh, Osgood 1881 

1902 f Wendell, Evert Jansen 1 900 

1898 Werner, Adolph 1865 

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fWesley, Edward B 1857 

Weston, Lillian R 1902 

fWetmore, Charles H 1858 

fWetmore, George Peabody . . . . 1875 

fWheeler, Everett P 1863 

fWhitaker, Rev. Arthur 1886 

Whitaker, John E 1902 

tWhite,AlainC 1903 

White, John Jay, jr 1902 

°tWhite, Mrs. Joseph M 1902 

t White, Win. Augustus 1857 

fWhitlock, Bache McEvers. . . . 1879 
Whitman, Charles Seymour. . . . 1903 

fWhitney, Charles A 1886 

Whitridge, Frederick W 1886 

fWhittaker, Thomas 1879 

Wicker, Cassius M 1902 

Wiener, Frank 1896 

tWilder, Louis D. V., M.D 1864 

Wilkins, Rev. Gouverneur 

Morris 1892 

f Wilkinson, James 1887 

fWillcox, David 1901 

fWillets, JohnT 1886 

tWilliams, Benjamin C 1902 



fWilliams, David 1882 

Wills, CharlesT 1902 

fWilson, George 1883 

Wilson, Henry R 1902 

fWilson, M. Orme 1902 

fWindmuller, Louis 1891 

fWinthrop, Benjamin R 1857 

fWinthrop, Egerton Leigh 1857 

fWinthrop, Grenville L 1893 

fWinthrop, William Neilson. . . . 1857 
fWitthaus, Rudolph A., M.D . . . 1862 

fWood, Arthur King 1901 

tWood, Charles F 1892 

fWood, Mrs. Isaac F 1878 

fWood, William H. S 1889 

fWoodruff, Baker 1857 

t Woodruff, Francis E 1898 

Woolsey, Theodorus B 1870 

fWright, John M 1857 

fWyckoff, William F 1901 

tWysong, John J 1902 

f Young, William Hopkins 1896 

fYork, Edward Palmer 1902 

fZabriskie, Andrew C 1881 



Note. — In the preceding list, a dagger (f ) before the name indicates a 
Life Member, * Patron, ° Fellow. 



1]9 



SUBSCRIBERS. 



SUBSCRIBERS TO THE FUND FOR THE PUR- 
CHASE OF SITE FOR NEW BUILDING 

Central, Park West 
Seventy-sixth to Seventy-seventh Streets. 

Mrs. Robert L. Stuart $100,000 Oo 

John S. Kennedy 15,000 00 

George W. Vanderbilt 15,000 00 

J. Pierpont Morgan 10,000 00 

Cornelius Vanderbilt 10,000 00 

Miss Catherine Wolfe Bruce 10,000 00 

Miss Matilda Wolfe Bruce 10,000 00 

John Alsop King 8,500 00 

Alfred Corning Clark : 7,200 00 

John Divine Jones 5,000 00 

Mrs. Augustus Schell 5,000 00 

Miss Charlotte A. Mount 2,500 00 

Miss Susan Mount 2,500 00 

William K. Vanderbilt 2,000 00 

Robert Schell 2,000 00 

Benjamin H. Field 1,500 00 

Henry Herrman 1,000 00 

Mrs. Henry Herrman 1,000 00 

David Dows 1,000 00 

William Waldorf Astor 1,000 00 

Collis P. Huntington 1,000 00 

Henry G. Marquand 1,000 00 

Goldsborough Banyer 1,000 00 

Ambrose K. Ely 1,000 00 

Phillips Phoenix 1,000 00 

Lloyd Phoenix 1,000 00 

W. Bayard Cutting 1,000 00 

R. Fulton Cutting 1,000 00 

Miss Julia Rhinelander 1,000 00 

Miss Serena Rhinelander 1,000 00 

Robert J. Livingston 1,000 00 

Darius O. Mills 1,000 00 

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William H. Jackson $1,000 00 

Charles Lanier 1,000 00 

James M. Constable 1,000 00 

Robert Winthrop 1,000 00 

Percy R. Pyne 1,000 00 

Frederick Billings 1,000 00 

Cornelius N. Bliss 1,000 00 

Gerard Beeknian 1,000 00 

Daniel Parish, jr 1,000 00 

John A. Weekes 1,000 00 

Franklin H. Delano 1,000 00 

Adrian Iselin 1,000 00 

Frederick Sturges 1,000 00 

Charles L. Tiffany 1,000 00 

William C. Schermerhorn 1,000 00 

William Austin 1,000 00 

William L. Skidmore 1,000 00 

Samuel D. Babcock 1,000 00 

William D. Sloane 1,000 00 

Mrs. Charles H. Rogers 1,000 00 

William B. Isham 1,000 00 

Abram Dubois, M.D 1,000 00 

David Stewart 1,000 00 

Miss Rachel L. Kennedy 1,000 00 

Harris C. Fahnestock 1,000 00 

Levi P. Morton 1,000 00 

George Bliss 1,000 00 

Daniel B. Fayerweather 1,000 00 

Woodbury G. Langdon 1,000 00 

Orlando B. Potter. . 1,000 00 

Martin E. Greene 1,000 00 

Samuel Riker 900 00 

Albert R. Gallatin 500 00 

Miss Mary L. Kennedy 500 00 

William Astor 500 00 

Thomas N. Lawrence 500 00 

Mrs. Sarah J. Zabriskie 500 00 

Morris K. Jesup 500 00 

Frederick F. Thompson 500 00 

George G. Williams 500 00 

Elliott F. Shepard 500 00 

J. Hampden Robb 500 00 

Isaac J. Greenwood 500 00 

Mary Greenwood 500 00 

Andrew C. Zabriskie 500 00 

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Edward F. de Lancey $500 00 

Mrs. William H. Osborn 500 00 

Richard T. Auchmuty 500 00 

William M. Evarts 500 00 

Henry Dexter 500 00 

A. Van Home Stuyvesant 250 00 

Charles Howland Russell 250 00 

Maturin L. Delafield 250 00 

Mrs. Jonathan Sturges 250 00 

George Peabody Wetmore 250 00 

Mrs. Frank W. Jackson 250 00 

Amos R. Eno 250 00 

Josiah M. Fiske 250 00 

Frederic Bronson 250 00 

John L. Riker 200 00 

Herman C. van Post 200 00 

William Remsen 200 00 

Jacob Wendell 200 00 

George F. Baker 200 00 

James C. Carter 200 00 

Hugh N. Camp 200 00 

Charles W. Sloane 200 00 

Elbridge T. Gerry 100 00 

Stuyvesant Fish 100 00 

John H. Riker 100 00 

William T. Bucldey 100 00 

Jenkins Van Schaick 100 00 

Rev. Samuel M. Jackson 100 00 

Samuel Sloan 100 00 

Charles G. Langdon 100 00 

James W. Gerard 100 00 

Frederick B. Jennings 100 00 

Mrs. James A. Glover 100 00 

John Bigelow 100 00 

Robert Halstead 100 00 

William Lummis 100 00 

Edward N. Dickerson 100 00 

Henry T. Drowne 100 00 

Robert Harris 100 00 

Hicks Arnold 100 00 

Orlando M. Harper 100 00 

Charles A. Peabody 100 00 

James D. Lynch 100 00 

John T. Agnew 100 00 

John A. Hadden 100 00 

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Henry Clews $100 00 

Morgan Dix, D.D 100 00 

James A. Garland 100 00 

James Talcott 100 00 

Charles F. Southmayd 100 00 

Rev. Richard L. Burtsell 100 00 

Hiram Hitchcock 100 00 

Robert Ray Hamilton 100 00 

Abram S. Hewitt 100 00 

Albert L. Loomis, M.D 100 00 

Henry C. Sturges 100 00 

W. Seward Webb, M.D 100 00 

Walter Langdon 100 00 

Franklin Burdge 100 00 

Woolsey R. Hopkins 100 00 

John McKesson, jr 100 00 

Henry Dudley 100 00 

Jonathan H. Crane 100 00 

Elihu Chauncey 50 00 

Henry E. Lawrence 50 00 

Oliver G. Barton 50 00 

John T. Lockman 50 00 

Hamilton B. Tompkins 50 00 

John Clinton Gray 50 00 

William Augustus White 50 00 

Thomas C. Wood 50 00 

Robert Goelet 25 00 

Ogden Goelet 25 00 

Henry E. Gregory 25 00 

Charles E. Strong 25 00 

Edgar M. Crawford 25 00 

John S. Craig 25 00 

Lazarus Rosenfeld 25 00 

Addison Brown 25 00 

Richard J. Leggat 25 00 

George Wilson 25 00 



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SUBSCRIBERS TO THE BUILDING FUND. 

Legacy of Robert Schell $23,812 50 

Archer Milton Huntington 20,000 00 

Miss Matilda Wolfe Bruce ». . . 15,000 00 

The Very Reverend Eugene Augustus Hoffman, D.D 10,000 00 

F. Robert Schell. . ..'. 10,000 00 

'A Friend of the Society" (through Gouverneur Tillotson) .... 10,000 00 

"A Friend of the Society" (through Samuel Thorne) 10,000 00 

Samuel Verplanck Hoffman 5,500 00 

John Alsop King 5,000 00 

Miss Charlotte A. Mount 5,000 00 

Miss Susan Mount 5,000 00 

Charles A. Sherman (in memory of Charles P. Huntington) 5,000 00 

Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson 5,000 00 

William C. Schermerhorn 5,000 00 

Mrs. Eugene Augustus Hoffman 2,000 00 

Miss Phebe Anne Thorne 1,000 00 

Miss Mary Rhinelander King 1,000 00 

Miss Serena Rhinelander 1,000 00 

Edward S. Clark 1,000 00 

Daniel Parish, jr 1,000 00 

Mrs. Richard T. Auchmuty 1,000 00 

Herman C. von Post 1,000 00 

Theodore F. Jackson 1,000 00 

Isaac J. Greenwood 1,000 00 

Mrs. James M. Lawton 1,000 00 

Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes 1,000 00 

Nicholas Fish 1,000 00 

Charles A. Hoyt 1,000 00 

Mrs. Charles Frederick Hoffman 1,000 00 

Frederic Wendell Jackson 1,000 00 

Henry Phipps 1,000 00 

George G. Williams 1,000 00 

William K. Vanderbilt 1,000 00 

James Speyer 1,000 00 

Mrs. Joseph M. White 1,000 00 

Samuel Sloan 1,000 00 

Frank Tilford 1,000 00 

Mrs. Henry Herrman 1,000 00 

127 



Henry H. Cook $1,000 00 

George F. Baker 1,000 00 

Harris C. Fahnestock 1,000 00 

Mrs. Morris K. Jesup 1,000 00 

Mrs. John E. Parsons 1,000 00 

Murray Guggenheim 500 00 

John C. Osgood 500 00 

John E. Parsons 500 00 

Frederick Billings 500 00 

Mrs. J. Henry Watson 500 00 

Mrs. Thomas W. Nickerson, jr 500 00 

Mrs. Charles L. Hackstaff 500 00 

Mrs. Daniel M. Stimson 300 00 

Sidney Webster 250 00 

Mrs. J. Herman Aldrich 250 00 

Stuyvesant Fish 250 00 

John C. Havemeyer 200 00 

William Alexander Smith 100 00 

Marinus W. Dominick 100 00 

James J. Higginson 100 00 

Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt 100 00 

Woodbury G. Langdon 100 00 

Anson Phelps Stokes 100 00 

Nathaniel W. Hunt 100 00 

A. Lanfear Norrie 50 00 

Addison Brown 50 00 

Frederic J. de Peyster 50 00 

George Abeel 25 00 

Mrs. Eugenia Brodhead 25 00 

Wm. R. Huntington, D.D 25 00 

Abram S. Post 25 00 

Evert Jansen Wendell 25 00 

Francis E. Woodruff 25 00 

Mrs. Frederick Hasbrouck 25 00 

Jacob Rothschild 20 00 

J. Marcus Boorman , 20 00 

Samuel Sherwood 15 00 

Miss Mary F. Hall 10 00 

John Neilson Beekman, M.D 10 00 

Thomas Gallaudet, D.D 10 00 

Wm. Gray Schauffler, M.D 5 00 

Cash 1 00 

Henry Dexter, for erection of Memorial Building 250,000 00 

128 



FUNDS. 



PERMANENT FUNDS. 

The Isaiah Thomas Fund. — The legacy of Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester, 
Mass., in 1832, $300. 

The Elizabeth Demilt Fund. — The legacy of Miss Elizabeth Demilt, 
of New York, in 1849, $5,000. 

The Seth Grosvenor Fund. — The legacy of Seth Grosvenor, of New- 
York, in 1858, $10,000. 

The David E. Wheeler Fund. — The legacy of David E. Wheeler, of 
New York, in 1870, $1,000. 

The Thomas Barron Fund. — The legacy of Thomas Barron, of New 
York, in 1875, $10,000. 

The Richard E. Mount Fund. — The legacy of Richard E. Mount, 
of New York, in 1880, $1,000. 

The Edward Bill Fund. — The legacy of Edward Bill, of New York, 
in 1884, $5,000. 

The Augustus Schell Fund. — The legacy of Augustus Schell, of New 
York, in 1884, $5,000. 

The Mary Rogers Fund. — The legacy of Mrs. Charles H. Rogers, of 
New York, in 1891, $1,000. 

The James Francis Evans Fund. — The legacy of Captain James Francis 
Evans, of New York, in 1893, $1,000. 

The Henry Keteltas Fund. — The legacy of Henry Keteltas, of New 
York, in 1898, $5,000. 

The Charles P. Daly Fund. — The legacy of Charles P. Daly, of New 
York, in 1900, $5,000. 

The Maria Branson Mount Fund. — The legacy of Miss Maria Branson 
Mount, of New York, in 1901, $1,000. 

The Eugene Augustus Hoffman Memorial Fund. — The legacy of 
Dean Hoffman, 1902, late President of the Society, $50,000. 



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SPECIAL FUNDS. 

The Publication Fund. — Established by the Society in 1858, for the 
Publication of its Proceedings and Collections. Of the shares of the capital 
stock of this Fund, limited in number to 1,000, 829 have been sold up to the 
present time, as follows: 750 shares were sold prior to June 6, 1866, at $25 
per share; subsequently the price of shares was advanced to $50, when thirty 
shares were sold at the latter figure; the price of shares was again advanced, 
January 1, 1883, to $100 per share, since then forty-six shares have been sold, 
realizing $25,150, the interest of which is used for the publication of each 
successive volume. Thirty volumes have been published, 1868-1897. 

The Fund of the Sons of Rhode Island. — The gift of the Association 
in New York known by that name during the Civil War, presented in 1866, 
and devoted to the purchase of works for the Library relating to the history 
of Rhode Island, $600. 

The John Divine Jones Fund. — Founded by John Divine Jones, of 
New York, in 1879, for the publication and sale by the Society of works 
relating to the early history of New York and other American Provinces. 
This fund now amounts to $4,416.55. The History of New York during the 
Revolutionary War. By Thomas Jones. Edited by Edward F. de Lancey. 
2 volumes. 8vo. New York, 1879, have been published. 

The Stephen Whitney Ph(enix Fund. — The bequest of Stephen 
Whitney Phoenix, of New York, in 1882, for the maintenance and increase of 
the Phoenix Collection of Heraldry and Genealogy, $15,000. 



BUILDING FUND 

Balance on hand $85,396.74 



Trustees of the New Building. 
Henry Dexter gift $250,000.00 



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pp. 12 (2). New York, 1814. 
Inaugural discourse before the Society, by Gouverneur Morris, September 
4, 1816; the two hundred and sixth anniversary of the discovery of New 
York by Hudson. 8vo, pp. 24. New York, 1816. 
Memoir read before the Historical Society of the State of New York, Decem- 
ber 31, 1816. By Egbert Benson. 12mo, pp. 72. Jamaica, 1816. 
Memoir read before the Historical Society of the State of New York, Decem- 
ber 31, 1816. By Egbert Benson. 8vo, pp. 72. New York, 1817. 

Same. Second edition, with notes. 12mo, pp. 127. Jamaica, 1825. 
Memoir read before the Historical Society of the State of New York, Decem- 
ber 31, 1816. By Egbert Benson. Reprinted from a copy with the author's 
last corrections. 8vo, pp. 72. New York, 1848. 
Circular of the Mineralogical Committee, March 11, 1817. 4to, pp. 2. 
Circular. American zoology and geology. 4to, pp. 2. New York, March 

11, 1817. 
Report on botany and vegetable physiology read at a meeting of the Society, 

April 8, 1817. Broadside. 
Circular of Committee on Botany, April 8, 1817. 4to sheet, one page. 
Directions to be observed in collecting and preserving Plants, April 8, 1817. 
Broadside. 

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Circular letter of the Committee for collecting manuscripts and scarce books. 

New York, March, 1817. 4to sheet, one page. 
An anniversary discourse before the Society, December 7, 1818. By Gulian 

C. Verplanck. 8vo, pp. (2), 121. New York, 1818. 
Same. 8vo, pp. 101. New York, 1821. 
A history of the introduction and use of Scutellaria Lateriflora (Scullcap) 

as a remedy for preventing and curing hydrophobia, occasioned by the bite 

of rabid animals; with cases. Accompanied with a plate of the plant. By 

Lyman Spalding, M.D. Read before the New York Historical Society, 

September 14, 1819. 8vo, pp. 30. New York, 1819. 
A biographical memoir of Hugh Williamson. Delivered on the 1st of 

November, 1819, at the request of the Society. By David Hosack. 8vo, 

pp. 91. New York, 1820. 

Same. 8vo, pp. 78. New York, 1821. 
A discourse on the religion of the Indian tribes of North America. De- 
livered before the Society, December 20, 1819. By Samuel Farmar Jarvis. 

8vo, pp. 111. New York, 1820. 
Inaugural address before the Society, February 2, 1820. By David Hosack. 

8vo, pp. 14. New York, 1820. 
Proces verbal of the ceremony of installation of president [David Hosack] 

of the Society as it will be performed February 8, 1820. [By Gulien C. 

Verplanck.] 8vo, pp. 18. New York, 1820. 

A burlesque. Reprinted 1864. pp. 13 (2). Thirty-five copies. 
An anniversary discourse before the Society, December 28, 1820. By Henry 

Wheaton. Svo, pp. 49. New York, 1821. 
A biographical memoir of Samuel Bard, M.D., LL.D., late President of the 

College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University of the State of New 

York, etc. With a critique upon his writings. Read before the Society, 

August 14, 1821. By Henry William Ducachet, M.D. 8vo,pp.27. From 

the 4th volume of the American Recorder, October, 1821. Philadelphia. 
Anniversary discourse before the Society, December 6, 1823, by William 

Sampson, showing the origin, progress, antiquities, curiosities, and nature 

of the common law. Svo, pp. 68. New York, 1824. 
Memorial to the legislature of the State of New York. List of officers and 

members. Svo, pp. 32. New York, 1827. 
An anniversary discourse before the Society, December 13, 1827. By Joseph 

Blunt. 8vo, pp. 52. New York, 1828. 
An anniversary discourse before the Society, December 6, 1828. By James 

Kent. 8vo, pp. 40. New York, 1829. 
Circidar addressed to the members by the Treasurer, October, 1828. 4to 

sheet, one page. 
Constitution and by-laws. 12mo, pp. 21. New York, 1829. 
The origin and nature of the representative institutions of the United States ; 

an anniversary discourse, before the Society, on the 19th of April, 1832. 

By William Beach Lawrence. 8vo, pp. 44. New York, 1832. 

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Catalogue, with history of the Society. New York, 1838. 

Constitution and by-laws. 8vo, pp. 23. New York, 1839. 

The jubilee of the Constitution. A discourse delivered at the request of the 
Society oil the 30th of April, 1839, being the fiftieth anniversary of the 
inauguration of George Washington as President of the United States, 
the 30th of April, 1789. By John Quincy Adams. 8vo, pp. 136. Plate. 
New York, 1839. 

Menu. Semi-centennial anniversary festival of the inauguration of George 
Washington as President of the United States, April 30, 1839. Broadside. 

Address before the Society, 1839. [By Joseph Blunt.] (In his speeches, 
reviews, reports, etc. 8vo, pp. 151-195. New York, 1843. ) 

Lecture on the life and military services of Gen. James Clinton. Read 
before the Society, February 12, 1839. By William W. Campbell. 8vo, 
pp. 23. New York, 1839. 

Catalogue of books, manuscripts, maps, etc., added to the library since 
January 19, 1839. 8vo, pp. 32. New York, 1840. 

'The infancy of the Union." A discourse delivered before the Society, 
December 19, 1839. By William B. Reed. 8vo, pp. 50 (2). Philadelphia, 
1840. 

A description of New Netherlands (as the same are at the present time); 
comprehending the fruitfulness and natural advantages of the country 
and the desirable opportunities which it presents, within itself, and from 
abroad for the subsistence of man; which are not surpassed elsewhere. 
. . . With a dialogue between a Netherland patriot and a New Nether- 
lander on the advantages of the country. Written by Adrian Van der 
Donck. 

[Translated by J. Johnson.] The second edition, with a map of the 
country. At Amsterdam, published by Evert Nieuwenhof, bookseller, 
a.d. 1650. 8vo. New York. Reprinted, 1841. 
From the Collections, No. 2. 

Inaugural address of the Hon. Albert Gallatin on taking the chair as president 
of the Society, February 7, 1843. 8vo, pp. 21 (1). New York, 1843. 

A memoir on the Northeastern boundary, in connection with Mr. Jay's map, 
by Albert Gallatin; together with a speech on the same subject, by Daniel 
Webster, delivered at a special meeting of the Society, April 15, 1843. 
Illustrated by a copy of the "Jay map." 8vo, pp. (2), 74. New York, 
1843. 

Constitution and by-laws. 8vo, pp. 33. New York, 1844. 

An address before the Society at its fortieth anniversary, November 20, 1844; 
by John Romeyn Brodhead. With an account of the subsequent proceed- 
ings at the dinner. 8vo, pp. 107. New York, 1844. 

Proceedings, seven volumes. 8vo. New York, 1844-1859. 



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CONTENTS. 

1843. Annual report; Proceedings on the death of Peter A. Jay; 
Progress of ethnology, by John R. Bartlett; Notice of a military journal 
of the French and Indian war, by H. Schoolcraft; Paper on the "dis- 
tinctive character of the people of New York," by C. F. Hoffman; 
Proceedings on the decease of Colonel Trumbull. 8vo, pp. 154. New 
York, 1844. 

1844. Annual report; New Netherland, by Rev. Dr. De Witt; An- 
cient Indian stocks of North America, east of the Mississippi, by H. R. 
Schoolcraft; Some passages in the life of Governor Tompkins; The 
romance of American history (poem), by Thomas Ward. 8vo, pp. 213. 
New York, 1845. 

1845. Annual report; Sketches of biographical writers and their 
works of the State of New York, by William L. Stone; The Indian 
names of Long Island, by B. F. Thompson; Historical considerations, on 
the siege and defence of Fort Stanwix, in 1776, by H. R. Schoolcraft; 
The direct agency of the English Government in the employment of the 
Indians in the Revolutionary war, by W. W. Campbell; Memoir of 
Samuel Osgood, by Osgood Field; Observations respecting the two an- 
cient maps of New Netherland, found in the royal archives at the 
Hague, in 1841, by J. Romeyn Brodhead. 8vo, pp. 229. New York. 
1846. 

1846. Annual report; Memorial to the Legislature; Memoir of the 
French and Indian expedition against New York, which surprised and 
burned Schenectady, February 9, 1689-1690, by Maunsell Van Rens- 
selaer; Notices of some antique earthen vessels found in the low tumuli 
of Florida [etc.], by H. R. Schoolcraft; Observations to show that the 
Grand Turk Island, and not San Salvador, was the first spot on which 
Columbus landed in the New World, by George Gibbs; The progress 
of geography and ethnology, by J. R. Bartlett. 8vo, pp. 214. Two 
plates. New York, 1847. 

1847. Annual meeting; History of the Federal seat of government, 
by J. B. Varnuni; "Defeat of General St. Clair in 1791," by C. R. Oil- 
man; "Early European colonies on the Delaware," by J. W. Beekman; 
"The battle of Ticonderoga, 1758," by B. F. Thompson; Jesuit rela- 
tions and discoveries, and other occurrences in Canada and the North- 
ern and Western States, 1632-1672, by E. B. O'Callaghan. 8vo, pp. 
(8), 174. New York, 1847. 

1848. Officers; Annual election; Reports; Proceedings on death of 
Chancellor Kent; " On the sources of some of the early settlements in the 
State of New York," by Rev. Dr. De Witt; "On proposed amendments 
to the Constitution of the United States, with original unpublished letters 
from distinguished statesmen," by J. II. Raymond; Translation of a 
letter of I. de Rasiere, in 1627, giving an account of New Netherland; 

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Notes from " Wassenaer's Historische Verhael"; "Fenelon among the 
Iroquois," by Robert Greenhow. (Greenhow's paper was issued as a 
supplement.) Svo, pp. viii, 5-209. New York, 1S49. 

1849. O/Iicers; Annual election; Report upon the aborginal monu- 
ments of western New York, by E. G. Squier; Notes for a memoir of 
Peter Minuit, by George H. Moore; Champlain in the Onondaga Val- 
ley, by O. H. Marshall; The ancient architecture of America, by R. C. 
Long; Our Dutch progenitors, by J. W. Knevels ; History of religious mis- 
sions, by J. W. Beekman; Reminiscences of Albert Gallatin, by J. R. 
Bartlett. 8vo, pp. 298. Plates. New York, 1849. 
Debate in the Society on "Columbia" as the new name of this country, 

instead of "America," May 15, 1845. Svo. New York, 1845. 
Report of the aborginal names and geographical terminology of the State 
of New York. Part 1. Valley of the Hudson. Made to the Society by 
the committee appointed to prepare a map, etc., and read at the stated 
meeting of the Society, February, 1844. By Henry R. Schoolcraft. Pub- 
lished from the Society's Proceedings for 1844. Svo, pp. 43. New York, 
1845. 

The imprint reads in some copies "Printed for the Society"; in others 
"Printed for the Author." 
Report of the committee of the Society on a national name, March 31, 1845. 

Svo, pp. 8. No title-page. New York, 1845. 
A discourse delivered before the Society, at its forty-first anniversary, Novem- 
ber, 20, 1845. By Alexander W. Bradford. Svo, pp. 31. New York, 1846. 
Historical considerations on the siege and defence of Fort Stanwix in 1777. 
Read before the Society, June 19, 1845. By Henry R. Schoolcraft. 8vo, 
pp. 29. New York, 1846. 
The charter and by-laws. Revised March, 1846. 8vo, pp. 47. New York, 

1846. 
Notices of some antique earthen vessels, found in the low tumuli of Florida, 
and in the caves and burial places of the Indian tribes north of those 
latitudes. Read before the Society, June 2, 1846. Svo, pp. 15. Plates. 
Reprinted from Proceedings. New York, 1847. 
Incentives to the study of the ancient period of American history. An 
address delivered before the Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 
November 17, 1846. By Henry R. Schoolcraft. Svo, pp. 38. New York, 
1847. 
Jesuit Relations of discoveries and other occurrences in Canada and the 
Northern and Western States of the Union. 1632-1672. By E. B. 
O'Callaghan. From the Proceedings of the Society. November, 1847. 
8vo, pp. 22. New York, 1847. 
The progress of ethnology; an account of recent archaeological, philological, 
and geographical researches in various parts of the globe, tending to 
elucidate the physical history of man. By J. R. Bartlett. 8vo, pp. 151. 
New York, 1847. 

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The substance of this memoir was read before the New York His- 
torical Society, and a portion before the American Ethnological Society. 
Anniversary discourse, November 19, 1847. By Benjamin Franklin Butler. 

Outline of the constitutional history of New York. 8vo, pp. 75. New 

York, 1848. 
Annual report of the Executive Committee for the year 1847. 8vo, pp. 15. 

New York, 1848. 
Circular of Committee for procuring funds for the erection of building, 

October 30, 1848. 4to, pp. 3. 
Historical and mythological traditions of the Algonquins; with a translation 

of the " Walum-Olum," or bark record of the Linni-Lenape. Read before 

the Society, June 5, 1848. 8vo, pp. 23. 
In American Review, February, 1849. 
History of the New York Chamber of Commerce, with notices of some of 

its most distinguished members. An anniversary discourse delivered be- 
fore the Society, November 21, 1848. By Charles King. 8vo, pp. 66. 

New York, 1849. 
Narrative of the expedition of the Marquis de Nonville against the Senecas, 

in 16S7. Translated from the French, with an introductory notice and 

notes, by Orsamus H. Marshall. 8vo, pp. 48. Two maps. Reprinted 

from Collections. New York, 1848. 
The ancient architecture of America. Discourse before the Society, April 

3, 1849. By R. Cary Long. 8vo, pp. 37. Nine plates. New York, 

1S49. 
By-laws of the committee or trustees of the building fund, 1850. 8vo, pp. 8. 

New York, 1850. 
Antiquities of the State of New York. Illustrated by 14 quarto plates and 

80 engravings on wood. By E. G. Squier. 8vo, pp. 343. Buffalo, 1851. 
"The investigations, the residts of which are embodied in the following 
pages were undertaken in the autiunn of 1S48, under the joint auspices of 
the Historical Society of New York and the Smithsonian Institution. 
They were originally, published in the second volume of the Smithsonian 
Contributions to Knowledge." (Preface.) 
Letter to the trustees of the building fund of the Society. 8vo, pp. 21. 

New York, 1851. 
An address delivered before the Society, February 23, 1852, by Daniel 

Webster. 8vo, pp. 57. New York, 1852. 
Cotton. A paper on the growth, trade and manufacture of cotton. Read 

before the Society, March 2, 1852. By J. G. Dudley. 8vo, pp. 96. New 

York, 1853. 
English colonization in America. A vindication of the claims of Sir Ferdi- 

nando Gorges as the father of English colonization in America. By J. A. 

Poor. Delivered before the historical societies of Maine and New York. 

8vo, pp. 144. New York, 1852. 
The Mecklenburg declaration of independence. A lecture by Francis L. 

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Hawks, delivered before the Society, at Metropolitan Hall, December 16, 

1852. Woodcut. Folded plate of facsimiles. 

In Revolutionary History of North Carolina, pp. 43-98. Raleigh, 
1853. Compiled by W. D. Cooke. 
The City of New York: Its growth, destinies and duties. A lecture delivered 

before the Society, January 6, 1853. By John A. Dix. 8vo, pp. 23. 

New York, 1853. 
The discovery and colonization of America and immigration to the United 

States. A lecture delivered before the Society on the 1st of June, 1853. 

By Edward Everett. 8vo, pp. 32. Boston, 1853. 
Address before the Society, by Edward Everett; with an introduction by J. 

R. Ingersoll. 8vo, pp. 40. London, 1853. 
The charter and by-laws. Second edition, with amendments. 8vo, pp. 22. 

New York, 1853. 
British invasion of North Carolina, in 1780 and 1781. A lecture by William 

A. Graham, delivered before the Society, in January, 1853. Woodcut. 
In Revolutionary History of North Carolina. Compiled by W. D. 
Cooke, pp. 147-209. Raleigh, 1853. 
Proceedings of the Society, October, 1853. Ruins of Tenampua, Honduras, 

Central America. [Letter from E. G. Squier, communicated by Prof. W. 

W. Turner, of Washington.] 12mo, pp. 8. [New York, 1853.] 
Circular letter. September 12, 1854. 4to sheet, one page. New York, 1854. 
The necessity, the realty, and the promise of the progress of the human race. 

Oration before the Society, November 20, 1854, by George Bancroft. 

8vo, pp. 37. New York, 1854. 
Semicentennial celebration. Fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the 

Society, November 20, 1854. 8vo, pp. 96. New York, 1854. 
Semicentennial anniversary of the Society, November 20, 1854. List of 

Toasts. Broadside. 
The seven articles from the Church of Leyden, 1617. With an introductory 

letter by George Bancroft. 8vo, pp. 10. [New York, 1856.] 
From the Collections of the Society, second series, Vol. in. 
Narrative of a captivity among the Mohawk Indians, a description of New 

Netherland in 1642— 13, and other papers. By Isaac Jogues. With a 

memoir of the author by John Gilmary Shea. 8vo, pp. 69. New York, 

1856. 

Same, New York, 1857. 8vo, pp. 69. 
Reprinted from the Collections of the Society. 
A paper on the history and prospects of interoceanic communication by the 

American isthmus. Read by Lieut. I. C. [G.] Strain before the Society, 

June 17, 1856. 8vo, pp. 27. New York, 1856. 
The Dutch at the north pole and the Dutch in Maine. A paper read before 

the Society, March 3, 1857. By J. Watts De Peyster. 8vo, pp. 80. New 

York, 1857. 
Circular letter, January, 1857. [Erection of building.] 4to sheet, one page 

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Proceedings of the Society at the dedication of the library, November 3, 1857. 

8vo, pp. 27. New York, 1857. 
The Washington chair, presented to the Society by Benjamin Robert Win- 

throp, November 3, 1857. 8vo, pp. 10. Woodcut. New York [1857]. 
New York during the last half century; a discourse in commemoration of the 

fifty-third anniversary of the Society and of the dedication of their new 

edifice (November 17, 1857). By John W. Francis. 8vo, pp. 232. New 

York, 1857. 
Old New York; or, reminiscences of the past sixty years. Being an enlarged 

and revised edition of the anniversary discourse delivered before the 

Society (November 17, 1857). By John W. Francis. 8vo, pp. 384. 

New York, 1858. 
Proofs considered of the early settlement of Acadie by the Dutch, being an 

appendix to The Dutch in Maine. [By John Watts De Peyster.] 8vo, 

pp. 19. [New York, 1858.] 
Catalogue of printed books in the library of the New York Historical Society. 

8vo, pp. viii, 653. New York, 1859. 
Henry Cruger, the colleague of Edmund Burke in the British Parliament. 

A paper read before the Society, January 4, 1859. By Henry C. Van 

Schaack. 8vo, pp. 67. New York, 1859. 
Proceedings of the Society on the announcement of the death of W. H. Pres- 

cott, February, 1859. 8vo, pp. (2), 16. [New York, 1859.] 
The Sons of Liberty in New York. A paper read before the Society, May 

3, 1859. By Henry B. Dawson. 8vo, pp. 118. [New York] 1859. 
Circidar of Committee on purchase of the Egyptian Museum, May 14, 1859. 

12mo, pp. 2. 
"Mr. Lee's plan— March 29, 1777." The treason of Charles Lee, major- 
general, second in command in the American Army of the Revolution. 

By George H. Moore. Read before the Society, June 22, 1858. 8vo, 

pp. xii, 115 (1). Two portraits. Two folded sheets. New York, 1860. 
Proceedings of the Society, December 6, 1859, on the death of Washington 

Irving. In Irvingiana. pp. 29-36. New York, 1860. 
Discourse on the life, character, and genius of Washington Irving. Delivered 

before the Society on the 3d of April, 1860. By W. C. Bryant. 8vo, pp. 46. 

New York, 1860. 
Circular. Purchase of the Egyptian collection, January 24, 1860. Smgle 

sheet, one page. 
Doclaration of Independence by the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, May 1 , 

1776. Letter to Luther Bradish, president of the Society. By Henry 

B. Dawson. January 7, 1862. 8vo, pp. 12. With facsimile. [New 

York, 1862.] 
Annual report of the committee on the fine arts, January, 1862. 8vo, pp. 8. 

[New York, 1862.] 
Old New York. Read before the Society, February 4, 1862, by Benjamin 

Robert Winthrop. 8vo, pp. 6. Map. New York, 1862. 

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Mr. Bancroft's letter on the exchange of prisoners during the American war 
of independence. February 14, 1862. 8vo, pp. 7, (4). [New York, 1862.] 

Discourse on the life, character, and policy of Count Cavour, delivered in the 
hall of the Society, February 20, 1862. By Vincenzo Botta. 8vo, pp. 108. 
New York, 1862. 

Sulla vita, natura e politica del Conte di Cavour, discorso di Vincenzo Botta 
nella Sala della Societa, storica di Nuova-York il 20 febbraio 1862. Ver- 
sione dall' inglese [di Stanislao Gatti]. 8vo, pp. 98. Napoli, 1862. 

The New York negro plot of 1741. A paper read before the Society, May 6, 
1862. By John Gilmary Shea. 

In Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, 1870, pp. 
764-771. 

Catalogue of the museum and gallery of art of the Society. 8vo, pp. 72, 39. 
New York, 1862. 

Charter and by-laws. Revised January, 1858; with a list of members. 
8vo, pp. 73, (1). New York, 1862. 

Treachery in Texas, the secession of Texas, and the arrest of the United States 
officers and soldiers serving in Texas. Read before the Society, June 25, 
1861. By J. T. Sprague. 8vo, pp. 109-142. New York, 1862. 

The life, writings, and character of Edward Robinson, D.D. Read before 
the Society, February 3 and March 24, 1863. By Henry B. Smith and 
Roswell D. Hitchcock. 12mo, pp. 100. New York, 1863. 

The assault on Stony Point by Gen. Anthony Wayne, July 16, 1779. Prepared 
for the Society and read April 1, 1862. With maps, facsimiles, and illustrative 
notes. By H. B. Dawson. Large 8vo, pp. viii, 156. Morrisania, 1863. 

Circular of committee on purchase of Audubon's original drawings of "The 
Birds of America." April 14, 1863. Single sheet, one page. 

Address delivered at the celebration by the Society, May 20, 1863, of the 
two hundredth anniversary of the birthday of William Bradford, who in- 
troduced the art of printing into the middle colonies of British America, 
by John William Wallace. Published, with an introductory note, in pur- 
suance of a resolution of the Society. 8vo, pp. 114. Albany, 1863. 

When was the drama introduced in America ? An historical inquiry anterior 
to Dunlap's History of the American theatre. Read before the Society. 
November 3, 1863. By Charles P. Daly. 8vo, pp. 12. New York, 1864, 

The beginning of America. A discourse before the Society on its fifty-ninth 
anniversary, November 17, 1863, by Erastus C. Benedict. 8vo, pp. 64. 
New York, 1864. 

An account of Abimelech Cotfdy and other celebrated writers of New York 
(thirty-five copies printed), 1864; proccs verbal of the ceremony of installa- 
tion of the president of the New York Historical Society. 8vo, pp. 2. 
New York, 1864. 

A burlesque on the Society. 

Circidar to members. 1864. 8vo, pp. (4), 11, (1). [New York, 1864.] 

List of officers. Revised, 1864. 

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Rules of the Executive Committee, 1864. 8vo, pp. 7. [New York 1864 ] 
An inquiry into the authenticity of documents concerning a discovery in North 
America claimed to have been made by Verrazzano. Read before the 
Society, October 4, 1864. By Buckingham Smith. 8vo, pp. 31 Man 
New York, 1864. ' F ' 

Commemoration of the conquest of New Netherland on its two hundredth 
anniversary, by the Society. 8vo, pp. 87. Map. New York, 1864 

Pages 5-58 are taken up with "Oration on the conquest of New 
Netherland, before the Society, the 12th of October, 1864. By John 
Romeyn Brodhead," with separate title-page. 
Oration on the conquest of New Netherland. Delivered before the Society 
October 12, 1863. By John Romeyn Brodhead. 8vo, pp. 54 Man' 
New York, 1864. * ' 

Process verbal of the ceremony of installation of president of the New York 
Historical Society, as it will be performed February 8, 1820. 8vo, pp. 13, 
(2). Thirty-five copies. New York, 1820. Reprinted 1864 
Memoir of Rip Van Dam, by Frederic De Peyster. Read before the Society 

November 4, 1862. 8vo, pp. 26. Two portraits. New York 1865 
Proceedings of the Society on the death of Luther Bradish, president, October 

1863. 8vo, pp. 24, (2). Portrait. New York, 1865. 
An address before the Society on its sixtieth anniversary, November 22 1864 
By Frederic De Peyster. 8vo, pp. (4), 76. Portrait. New York,' 1865." 
On the early political history of New York. 
The annual discourse before the Society on the 20th of December, 1859. 

By George Folsom. 8vo, pp. 48. Ventnor, England, 1866. 
The charter and by-laws. Revised January, 1858. With the amendments 

and a list of members. 8vo, pp. 38. New York, 1866. 
Catalogue of the museum and gallery of art of the Society, 1866. 8vo on 

viii, 72, 61, (1). New York, 1866. ' 

The moral and intellectual influence of libraries upon social progress. An 
address before the Society on its sixty-first anniversary, November 21, 1865. 
By Frederic De Peyster. 8vo, pp. 96. New York, 1866. 
Resident members of the Society, March, 1866. 8vo, pp. 16 [New York 
1866.] 

North American rock-writing, and other aboriginal modes of recording and 
transmitting thought. By Thomas Ewbank. 8vo, pp. (3), 49. Mor- 
risania, 1866. 

Read before the Society, March 6, 1866, and published in the His- 
torical Magazine for August, September, and October, 1866. 
The government of Sir Edmond Andros over New England in 1688 and 1689 
Read before the Society, December 4, 1866. By John Romeyn Brod- 
head. 8vo, pp. 40. Morrisania, N. Y., 1867. 
New York in the nineteenth century. A discourse delivered before the 
Society on its sixty-second anniversary, November 20, 1866. By Samuel 
Osgood, D.D. 8vo, pp. 127. New York, 1867. 

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History and its philosophy. The address at the sixty-third anniversary of 

the Society, December 19, 1867. By C. S. Henry, D.D. 8vo, pp. 16. 

New York, 1868. 
Catalogue of the museum and gallery of art of the Society, 1867. 8vo, 

viii, pp. 72, 61 (1). New York, 1867. 
Collections. Vols, i-xxx. For the years 1868-1897. Publication fund 

series. New York, 1868-1898. 
8vo. Thirty volumes. 

CONTENTS. 

Vol. i. 1868. Officers, 1868; The continuation of Chalmer's Political 
annals ; Letters on Smith's History of New York, by Cadwallader Colden ; 
Documents relating to the administration of Jacob Leisler. 8vo, pp. 
xviii, (2), 458. New York, 1869. 

Vol. II. 1869. Officers, 1870; The Clarendon papers; Tracts relating 
to New York; The destruction of Schenectady; Arguments offered to the 
lords commissioners for trade and plantation relating to some acts of 
assembly passed at New York, in America, 1701; Miscellaneous docu- 
ments; Letter of Cadwallader Colden on Smith's History, July 5, 1759; 
Documents concerning Plowden's New Albion; Notes and observations 
on the town of East Hampton, at the east end of Lond Island, written 
by John Lyon Gardiner, 1798; Notes and memorandums concerning ( Jar- 
diners Island, written in May, 1798, by John Lyon Gardiner; Copy of 
James Farrett's grant to Lyon Gardiner; Note, witchcraft in New York ; 
Collection of evidence in vindication of the territorial rights and juris- 
diction of the State of New York against the claims of Massachusetts 
and New Hampshire and the people of the Grants, commcnly called 
Vermonters. 8vo, pp. xiv, (2), 560. New York, 1870. 
Vol. in. 1870. Officers, 1871; State of the evidence and argument in sup- 
port of the territorial rights and jurisdiction of New York against the 
government of New Hampshire, by James Duane; Old New York ami 
Trinity church; Extracts from various newspapers, 1730-1785; Some 
remarks on the memorial and remonstrance of Trinity church, etc., 
1785; Extracts from various newspapers, 1785-1790; A good conversa- 
tion, a sermon preached at New York, January 19, 1706, by Francis 
Makemie. 8vo, pp. xii, (2), 488. New York, 1871. 

Vol. rv. 1871. Officers, 1872; The Lee papers, Vol. i, 1751-177(1. 
8vo, pp. (10), 494. New York, 1872. 

Vol. V. 1872. Officers, 1873; The Lee papers, Vol. n, 1776-177S. 
8vo, pp. (8), 494. New York, 1873. 

Vol. vi. 1873. Officers, 1874; The Lee papers, Vol. in, 1778-1782- 
8vo, pp. (10), 494. New York, 1874. 

Vol. vii. 1874. Officers of the Society, 1875; The Lee papers, Vol. 
iv, 1782-1811; Memoir of General Lee, by Isaac Langworthy, 1787; 
Memoir of General Lee, by Sir Henry Bunbury, Hart., 1838; Life of 

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Charles Lee, by Jared Sparks; The treason of Charles Lee, by George 
H. Moore. 8vo, pp. viii, (4), 500. New York, 1875. 

Vol. viii. 1875. Officers, 1876; Official letters of Maj. Gen. James 
Pattison, as commandant of the royal artillery in America [and] as 
commandant of the city of New York, 1779-80; Letters to Gen. Lewis 
Morris, 1775-1782. 8vo, pp. x, 33, (4), 553. New York, 1876. 

Vol. ix. 1876. Officers, 1877; Introduction; The Golden letter books, 
Vol. i, 1760-1765; 1877. 8vo, pp. x, (2), 495. New York, 1877. 

Vol. x. 1877. Officers, 1878; The Colden letter books, Vol. n, 1765- 
1775. 8vo, pp. (8), 531. New York, 1S7S. 

Vol. xi. 1878. Officers, 1879; Revolutionary papers, Vol. i: The 
papers of Charles Thomson, secretary of the Continental Congress 
1765-1816; Correspondence; Debates in the Congress of the Confedera- 
tion, July 22 to September 20, 1782; "Joseph Reed's narrative"; Letters 
of Colonel Armand (Marquis de la Rouerie), 1777-1791; Letters to 
Robert Morris, 1775-1782. 8vo, pp. xiv, (2), 503. New York, 
1879. 

Vol. xn. 1879. Officers, 1880; Revolutionary papers, Vol. n: The 
trial of Major-General Schuyler, October, 1778; The trial of Major- 
General Howe, December, 1781 ; Transactions as commissary for em- 
barking foreign troops in the English service from Germany, 1776-1777, 
by Charles Rainsford. 8vo, pp. (10), 559. New York, 1880. 

Vol. xin. 1880. Officers, 1881; Revolutionary and miscellaneous 
papers, Vol. III.: Proceedings of a general court-martial for the trial of 
Major-General St. Clair, August 25, 1778; Journal of the most remark- 
able occurrences in Quebec, from the 14th of November, 1775, to the 
7th of May, 1776, by an officer of the garrison; The case of William 
Atwood, 1703; A sermon preached in Trinity church, in New Y'ork, 
May 12, 1709, at the funeral of John, Lord Lovelace, by William Vesey; 
Rev. John Sharpe's "Proposals for erecting a school, library, and chapel 
at New York," 1712-1713; The first minister of the Reformed Protestant 
Dutch Church in America, letter of Domine Jonas Michaelius to Domine 
Adrianus Smoutius, dated at Manhattan, 11 August, 1628, translated 
from the Dutch, with a preface and notes, by Henry C. Murphy; Court 
of lieutenancy, 1686-1696; Index to Revolutionary and miscellaneous 
papers, Vols. i-m. 8vo, pp. xiii, (3), 489. Folded map. New 
York, 1881. 

Vol. xiv. 1881. Officers, 1882; The Montresor journals, edited and 
annotated by G. D. Scull; Family of Montresor; Journals of Col. James 
Montresor, 1757-1759; Journals of Capt. John Montresor, 1757-1778; 
Appendix. 8vo, pp. xiv, 578. Portrait. Folded map. Plan. New 
York, 1882. 

Vol. xv. 1882. Officers, 1883; Introduction; Biographical sketch 
of Lieutenant Von Krafft, with a prefatory note, by Thomas H. Fdsall ; 
Journal of Lieut. John Charles Philip von Krafft, of the regiment Von 

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Bose, 1776-1784; Letter book of Capl. Alexander McDonald, of the 
royal highland emigrants, 1775-1779; Index. 8vo, pp. xii, (4), 515. 
Four folded plates. New York, 1883. 

Vol. xvi. 1883. Officers, 1884; Prefatory note; The Kemble papers, 
Vol. i, 1773-1789; Journals of Lieut. Col. Stephen Kemble, 1773-1789; 
Order books of Lieut. Col. Stephen Kemble, adjutant-general and 
deputy adjutant-general to the British forces in America, 1775-1778; 
Gen. Sir Henry Clinton's orders, 1778; Orders by Maj. Gen. Daniel 
Jones, commanding His Majesty's troops on New York Island 
and posts defending. 8vo, pp. xi, (5), 66G. Portrait. New York, 
1884. 

Vol. xvn. 1884. Officers, 1885; Prefatory note; The Ivemble papers 
Vol. ii, 1780-1781; Journals of Lieut. Col. Stephen Kemble, brigadier- 
general in command of the expedition to Nicaragua, 1780-1781; Orders 
of Brig. Gen. Stephen Kemble, expedition to Nicaragua, 1780-1781; 
Documents and correspondence; Expedition to the Spanish Main and 
Nicaragua, 1779-1781; Index to Kemble papers. 8vo, pp. xxiii, 472. 
Folded map. New York, 1885. 

Vol. xvin. 1885. Officers, 1886; The burghers of New Amsterdam 
and the freemen of New York, 1675-1866; The burgher right of New 
Amsterdam; Roll of freeman of New York City, 1675-1866; Indentures 
of apprenticeship, 1694-170S. 8vo, pp. xiii, (3), 678. New York, 1886. 

Vol. xix. 1886. Officers, 1887; Biographical notice of Silas Deane, by 
Charles Isham ; The Deane Papers, Vol. i, 1774-1777. 8vo, pp. xiv, (2), 
496. New York, 1887. 

Vol. xx. 1887. Officers, 1888; The Deane papers, Vol. n, 1777-1778. 
8vo, pp. (6), 499. New York, 1888. 

Vol. xxi. 1888. Officers, 1889; The Deane papers, Vol. in, 1778- 
1779. 8vo, pp. (8), 490. New York, 1889. 

Vol. xxii. 1889. Officers, 1890; The Deane papers, Vol. iv, 1779- 
1781. 8vo, pp. (8), 561. New York, 1890. 

Vol. xxiii. 1890. Officers, 1891; The Deane papers, Vol. v, 1782- 
1790, 8vo. pp. 692. New York, 1891. 

Vol. xxiv. 1891.- Officers, 1892; Introduction; New York Muster 
Rolls, 1755-1764. 8vo, pp. xiii, 621. New York, 1892. 

Vol. xxv. 1892. Officers; Introduction; Abstracts of Wills on file in 
the Surrogate's office, city of New York, Vol. i, 1665-1707. 8vo, pp. 
520. New York, 1893. 

Vol. xxvi. 1893. Officers; Abstracts of Wills, Vol, n, 1708-1728. 
With appendix and miscellaneous documents. 8vo, pp. 525. New 
York, 1894. 

Vol. xxvii. 1894. Officers; Abstracts of Wills, Vol. in, 1729-1744; 
Letters of Administration, 1744; Appendix and miscellaneous papers. 
8vo, pp. 501. New York, 1895. 

Vol. xxvin. 1895. Officers; Abstracts of Wills, Vol iv. 1744- 

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1753; Letters of Administration, 1745-1753. 8vo, pp. 559. New 
York, 1896. 

Vol. xxix. 1896. Officers; Abstracts of Wills, Vol. v, 1754-1760; 

Letters of Administration, 1753-1760. 8vo, pp. 496. New York, 1897. 

Vol. xxx. 1897. Officers; Abstracts of Wills, Vol. vi, 1760-1766. 

Letters of Administration, 1760-1766. 8vo, pp. 517. New York, 1898. 

Fitz Greene Halleck. A memorial. By F. S. Cozzens. Read before the 

Society, January 6, 1868. 8vo, pp. 32. New York, 1868. 
The De Peyster Collection. Catalogue of books in the library of the Society. 
presented by John Watts De Peyster. Part i. January, 1868. 8vo, pp. 24. 
New York, 1868. 
Catalogue of the museum and gallery of art of the Society, 1868. 8vo, pp. 

viii, 72, 61, (1). New York, 1868. 
Circular letter. Museum of history, antiquities, and art in the Central Park, 

4to, pp. 3. [New York, 1868.] 
A narrative of events at Lake George, from the early colonial times to the 
close of the Revolution. By B. F. De Costa. 8vo, pp. 74. Large paper. 
New York, 1868. 

Contains the substance of a paper read before the Society. 
Catalogue of the museum and gallery of art of the Society, 1869. 8vo, pp. 

viii, 72, 61, (1). New York, 1869. 
Historic progress and American democracy. An address delivered before the 
Society at their sixty-fourth anniversary, December 16, 1868. By John 
Lothrop Motley. 8vo, pp. (4), 74. New York, 1869. 
Some notices of the life and writings of Fitz Greene Halleck. Read before 
the Society, February 3, 1869. By William Cullen Bryant. 8vo, pp. 
43. New York, 1869. 
Some recollections of the late Antoine Pierre Berryer. A paper read before 
the Society on February 16, 1869. By John Bigelow. Svo, pp. (2), 36. 
[New York] 1869. 
Catalogue of the museum and gallery of art of the Society, 1869. Svo, pp. 
viii, 72, 61, (1). New York, 1869. 
Same, 1870. New York, 1870. 
Recent additions to the Bryan collection. Svo, pp. 2. [New York, 1870.] 
Beaiunarchais, the merchant. Letters of Theveneau de Francey, 1777-1780. 
By John Bigelow. Svo, pp. 16. New York, 1870. 

Paper was partly read before the New York Historical Society, April 

5, 1870. 

A discourse on the life, character, and writings of Gulian Crommelin Ver- 

planck. Delivered before the Society, May 17, 1870. By William Cullen 

Bryant. 8vo, pp. 60. New York, 1870. 

Proceedings of the Society on the announcement of the death of Thomas J. 

Bryan, June 7, 1870. 8vo, pp. 10. New York, 1870. 
Catalogue of the museum and gallery of art, 1871. 8vo, pp. iv, 72, 68. 
New York, 1871. 

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Memorial of Francis L. Hawks, D.D. By Evert A. Duyckinck. Read 

before the Society, May, 7, 1867. With an appendix of proceedings. 

8vo, pp. 166. Portrait. New York, 1871. 
The struggle for neutrality in America. An address delivered before the 

Society, at their sixty-sixth anniversary, December 13, 1870. By Charles 

Francis Adams. 8vo, pp. 52. New York, 1871. 
A memorial of Alexander Anderson, M.D., the first engraver on wood in 

America. Read before the Society, October 5, 1870. By Benson J, 

Lossing. Large 8vo, pp. (6), 107. Illustrated, 23 plates, 38 woodcuts. 

Portraits. New York, 1872. 
A memorial of Henry Theodore Tuckerman. By Evert A. Duyckinck. 

Read before the Society, January 2, 1872. With an appendix of proceed- 
ings. 8vo, pp. 15. Portrait. New York, 1872. 
Incident in the war of the United States with Mexico, illustrating the services 

of William Maxwell Wood, Surgeon, U. S. N., in effecting the acquisition 

of California. By George C. McWhorter. Read before the Society, May 

7, 1872. 8vo, pp. 10. [Oswego, N. Y., 1872.] 
Memorial of John David Wolfe. Read before the Society, June 4, 1872. 

W'ith a notice of proceedings. By Evert A. Duyckinck. 8vo, pp. 22. 

New York, 1872. 
Why the early inhabitants of Vermont disclaimed the jurisdiction of New 

York and established an independent government. An address delivered 

before the Society, December 4, 1860. By Hiland Hall. 8vo, pp. 16. 

Bennington, 1872. Reprinted in 1884. 
Catalogue of the museum and gallery of art of the Society, 1873. 8vo, pp 

viii, 72, 72. Woodcuts. New York, 1873. 
The charter and by-laws. Revised January, 1858. With the amendments 

and a list of members. 8vo, pp. 39. New York, 1873. 
A memorial of George Gibbs. By John Austin Stevens, jr. Read before 

the Society, October 7, 1873. With a notice of proceedings. 8vo, pp. 18. 

New York, 1873. 
Address before the Society at the celebration of its sixty-ninth anniversary. 

January 6, 1874. On " William III as a reformer." By Frederic De Peys- 

ter. 8vo, pp. 36. New York, 1874. 
Catalogue of the museum and gallery of art, 1874. 8vo, pp. iv, 72, 75. 

New York, 1874. 
A memorial of Thomas De Witt, D.D. By Thomas E. Vermitye, D.D. 

Read before the Society, October 6, 1874. With a notice of proceedings. 

8vo, pp. 28. New York, 1874. 
The old streets of New York under the Dutch. Paper read before the 

Society, June 2, 1874. By James W. Gerard. 8vo, pp. 65. New York, 1874. 
Same. 8vo, pp. 52. New York, 1875. 
The charter and bydaws. Revised January, 1858. With the amendments 

and a list of members. 8vo, pp. 39. New York, 1875. 
Maj. Gen. George II. Thomas. The annual address delivered before the 

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Society, January 5, 1875. By John Watts De Peyster. 8vo, pp. 24. New 
York, 1875. 
The early American spirit and the genesis of it. Address before the Society 
at the celebration of its seventieth anniversary, April 15, 1875. By Richard 
S. Storrs. 8vo, pp. (2), 74. New York, 1875. 

This paper was republished in 1878, with another on "The Declara- 
tion of Independence, and the effects of it." 
The old Stadt Huys of New Amsterdam. Paper read before the Society, 

June 15, 1875. By James W. Gerard. 8vo, pp. 59. New York, 1875. 
Thomas Crawford and art in America. Address before the Society, upon 
the reception of Crawford's statue of the Indian, presented by Frederic De 
Peyster, April 6, 1875. By Samuel Osgood, D.D. 8vo, pp. 40. New 
York, 1875. 
Expedition of the Sieur De Champlain against the Onondagoes in 1615. 
Comprising an inquiry into the route of the expedition and the location 
of the Iroquois fort which it besieged. Communicated to the Society, 
October 5, 1875, by Orsamus H.Marshall. 8vo,pp. 18. New York, 1876. 
This edition was suppressed and was followed by a new edition pub- 
lished in Magazine of American History, January, 1877. With title- 
page. 8vo, pp. 15. Map. New York, 1877. 
Progress of New York in a century, 1776-1876. An address before the 
Society, December 7, 1875. By John Austin Stevens. 8vo, pp. 66. New 
York, 1876. 
Nashville, the decisive battle of the Rebellion. [Address before the Society, 
January 4, 1876. By John Watts De Peyster.] 8vo, pp. 14. [New York, 
1876.] 
The battle of Harlem Plains. Oration, September 16, 1876. By John Jay. 
8vo, pp. 84. New York, 1876. 

Forms part of work entered below, entitled "The Commemoration 
of the Battle of Harlem Plains." 
Commemoration of the battle of Harlem Plains on its one hundredth anni- 
versary by the Society. 8vo, pp. 98. Plan. New York, 1876. 

Pages 1-38 contain, with an independent title-page: "The Battle of 
Harlem Plains; oration, September 16, 1876, by John Jay." Pages 
39-84 contain documentary matter relating to the same. [Compiled by 
William Kelby.] Pages 85-98, the proceedings of the Society in com- 
memoration. 
A biographical sketch of Robert R. Livingston. Read before the Society, 
October 6, 1876, by Frederic De Peyster. 8vo, pp. 38. Portrait. New 
York, 1876. 
The New York delegates to the Continental Congress. By John Austin 
Stevens. Read before the Society, May 2, 1876. In the Galaxy, August, 
1876. 
The Huguenot element among the Dutch. By Ashbel G. Vermilye. Read 
before the Society, October 6, 1876. 8vo, pp. 23. Schenectady [1876]. 

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Address before the Society at the celebration of its seventy-second anniversary, 
December 19, 1876. On " Representative men of the English revolution." 
By Frederic De Peyster. 8vo, pp. 44. Portraits. New York, 1876. 

Catalogue of the museum and gallery of art, 1877. 8vo, pp. iv, 73, 78. 
New York, 1877. 

The uniforms of the American army. By Asa Bird Gardiner. Read before 
the Society, November 7, 1876. Published in Magazine of American 
Histonj, August, 1877. 8vo, 461^.92, (1). New York, 1877. 

The capture of Mount Washington, November 16, 1776, the result of treason. 
By Edward F. De Lancey. Read before the Society, December 5, 1876. 
8vo, pp. 32. 2 maps. Reprint. New York, 1877. 

Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler and the Burgoyne campaign in the summer of 
1771. The annual address, January 2, 1877, before the Society. By 
John Watts De Peyster. 8vo, pp. 26. New York, 1877. 

Commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the adoption of the 
constitution of the State of New York. [April 20, 1777.] Address by 
Charles O'Conor, May 8, 1877. 8vo, pp. 40. New York, 1877. 

Our national flag — the Stars and Stripes. Its history in a century. Read 
before the Society, June 14, 1877. Published in Magazine of American 
History, July, 1877. 8vo, pp. 401^28. New York, 1877. 

The history of liberty, a paper read before the Society, February 6, 1866. 
By J. F. Aiken. With selected notes. 8vo, pp. 163. New York, 1877. 

The globe of Vlpius, 1542. By B. F. De Costa. Read before the Society, 
December 4, 1877. Reprint. 32mo, pp.' 8. [New York, 1878.] 

The life, character, and writings of William Cullen Bryant. A commemora- 
tive address before the Society, at the Academy of Music, December 30, 
1878. By George William Curtis. 8vo, pp. 64. New York, 1879. 

The life and administration of Richard, Earl of Bellomont, governor of the 
provinces of New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire from 1697 
to 1701. An address before the Society at the celebration of its seventy- 
fifth anniversary, November 18, 1879. By Frederic De Peyster. 8vo, 
pp. (8), 59, (1), xvii. Facsimile. Portraits. New York, 1879. 

History of New York during the Revolutionary war. By Thomas Jones. 
Edited by Edward F. De Lancey; with notes, contemporary docu- 
ments, maps, and portraits. 8vo. Two volumes. The John Divine 
Jones Fund series of Histories and Memoirs. -Printed for the Society. 
New York, 1879. 

Memorial sketch of the life and literary labors of Evert Augustus Duyckinck. 
Read before the Society, January 7, 1879. By William Allen Butler. 8vo, 
pp. 16. Portrait. New York, 1879. 

The battle of Harlem Heights, September 16, 1776. Read before the Society, 
February 5, 1878. With preface and notes. By Erastus C. Benedict. 
8vo, pp. xi, 62. New York [1880]. 

Circular to members. 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, and 1884. 4to. New York, 
1880-1884. 

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Sir John Johnson, the first American-born baronet. An address delivered 
before the Society, January 6, 1880. By John Watts De Peyster. 8vo, 
pp. 24. New York, 1880. 

"This contains the only trustworthy particulars of the battle of 
Oriskany, and a reprint, from the Proceedings of the New Jersey His- 
torical Society, of a Diary," Vol. n, pp. 115-122, 127, 128. 
Lady Deborah Moody. A discourse delivered before the Society, May 4, 

1880. By James W. Gerard. Published, by permission of the author, 
by F. B. Patterson. 8vo, pp. 40. New York, 1880. 

The charter and by-laws. Revised January, 1858. With the amendments 
and a list of members. 8vo, pp. 24. New York, 1881. 

The battle or affair of King's Mountain, Saturday, October 7, 1780. Being 
the address delivered at the annual meeting of the Society, 4th of January, 

1881. By John Watts De Peyster. 8vo, pp. 8. Half title. New York 
[1881]. 

The New York Continental Line of the army of the revolution. By Asa 
Bird Gardiner. Read before the Society. In Magazine of American 
History, December, 1881. 8vo, pp. 401-419. New York, 1881. 

A memorial sketch of Frederic De Peyster, late president of the Society. 
Read October 3, 1882. [By Hamilton Fish.] Reprinted from the Maga- 
zine of American History, November, 1882. 4to, pp. 769-773. Portrait. 
New York, 1882. 

Catalogue of the museum and gallery of art, 1883. 8vo, pp. iv, 73, 95. 
New York, 1883. 

The impress of nationalities upon the City of New York. Read before the 
Society by James W. Gerard, May 1, 1883. Svo, pp. 32. New York, 
1883. 

Memorial sketches of Stephen Whitney Phnr-nix. By Jacob B. Moore and 
Henry T. Drowne. Read before the Society, December 6, 1881, and 
before the Rhode Island Historical Society, July 3, 1883. Svo, pp. 6, 7. 
Portrait. Reprint. Boston, 1883. 

Resident members of the Society, March, 1884. 8vo, pp. 15. [New York, 
1884.] 

The peace negotiations of 1782 and 1783. An address before the New York 
Historical Society, November 27, 1883. By John Jay. 8vo, pp. 239. 
Map. New York, 1884. 

Why the early inhabitants of Vermont disclaimed the jurisdiction of New 
York and established an independent government. An address delivered 
before the Society, December 4, 1860. By Hiland Hall. 8vo, pp. 15, (1). 
Bennington, Vt., 1872, and reprinted 1884. 

Resolves, at meeting, March 4, 1884, on the death of Miss Eliza Susan 
Quincy. Broadside. 

Report of Executive Committee, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, 
1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903. 
8vo. New York, 1885-1903. 

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Catalogue of the museum and gallery of art, 1885. 8vo, pp. vii, 73, 95. 
New York, 1885. 

Report of the joint committee on the centennial celebration of the evacuation 
of New York by the British, Monday, November 26, 1883. With an his- 
torical introduction, by John Austin Stevens. 4to, pp. 201. New York, 1885. 
The Society had a principal part in the celebration, and was repre- 
sented on the joint committee. 

Final notes on witchcraft in Massachusetts. A summary vindication of the 
laws and liberties concerning attainders with corruption of blood, escheats, 
forfeitures for crime, and pardon of offenders, in reply to the "Reasons," 
etc., of Abner C. Goodell, jr. By George H. Moore. 8vo, pp. 120. 
New York, 1885. 

Read in part before the Society, November 4, 1884. 

The early New York post-office. Ebenezer Hazard, postmaster and post- 
master-general. By Ashbel G. Vermilye, D.D. Read before the Society, 
December 2, 1884. In Magazine of American History, February, 1885. 
8vo, pp. 113-130. New York, 1885. 

The romantic school in American archa?ology. By Adolph F. Bandelier. 
Read before the Society, February 3,1885. 8vo,pp. 14. New York, 1885. 

Niagara's emancipation. Remarks of Luther Marsh, November 3, 1885, 
before the Society on reporting to it, as one of its committee, appointed to 
attend the opening ceremonies at the inauguration of the Niagara reser- 
vation, July 15, 1883. 8vo, pp. 18. New York, 1885. 

Address on The Alphabet— The Vehicle of History, before the Society at 
its eighty-first anniversary, November 17, 1885. By Luther Marsh. 8vo, 
pp. 32. New York [1885]. 

Circular requesting subscriptions for new building, December 15, 1885. 
4to, pp. 3. 

Report on the gift to the Society of a copy of "State Trials of England," 
which originally belonged to Sir William Johnson, March 2, 188G. 8vo, 
pp. 4. 

The first epic of our country. By the poet conquistador of New Mexico, 
Captain Caspar De Villagra. By John Gilmary Shea. Read before the 
Society, March 2, 1886. 8vo, pp. 16. [New York, 1886.] 

Resident members of the Society, May, 1886. 8vo, pp. 15. New York, 1886. 

Leading incidents in the life of Henry Clay; his patriotism, statesmanship, 
and eloquence. An address by Erastus Brooks before the New York His- 
torical Society, April 6, 1886, and before the Pennsylvania Historical 
Society, May 14, 1886. 8vo, pp. 32. New York, 1886. 

Memorial notice of John B. Moreau. By Benson J. Lossing. Read before 
the Society, May 4, 1886. 12mo, pp. 12. [New York, 1886.] 

Governor Thomas Pownall, Colonial statesman. By Robert Ludlow Fowler. 
Read before the Society, October 5, 1886. 8vo, pp. 20. Portrait. [New 
York, 1886.] 

The opening, the use, and the future of our domain on this continent. An 

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address before the Society on its eighty-second anniversary, November 

16, 1886. By George E. Ellis, D.D. 8vo, pp. 34. New York, 1887. 
Catalogue of the museiun and gallery of art, 1887. 8vo, pp. vii, 73, 95. 

New York, 1887. 
The framing of the Federal Constitution and the causes leading thereto. 

An address delivered before the Society on its eighty-third anniversary, 

Tuesday, November 15, 1887. By Hon. John Alsop King. 8vo, pp. 40. 

New York, 1888. 
Appeal to the members and the citizens of New York for subscriptions to the 

building fund, December 14, 1887. 8vo, pp. 3. 
Memorial to the Governor, the Senate and the Assembly of the State of New 

York. Centennial anniversary of the adoption by the State of New York 

of the Constitution of the United States (July 26, 1888). March 6, 1888. 

4to, pp. 2. 
The land politics of the United States. A paper read before the Society, 

Tuesday, May 1, 1888. By James C. Welling, LL.D. 8vo, pp. 40. New 

York, 1888. 
Circular to the members of the Bar of the City of New York. Subscriptions 

to building fund. June 1, 1888. Broadside. 
Circular letter to subscribers to the building fund, November 12, 1888. 

Broadside. 
Some recollections of the late Edouard Laboulaye. By John Bigelow. 

12mo, pp. (2), 81. [New York, 1888.] 

A portion of these Recollections was read before the Society, Novem- 
ber 20, 1888. 
Frontenac and Miles Standish in the Northwest. A paper read before the 

Society, December 4, 1888. By Edward S. Isham. 8vo, pp. 39. New 

York, 1889. 
The City of New York in the year of Washington's inauguration, 1789. By 

Thomas E. V. Smith. 8vo, pp. 244. Map. New York, 1889. 
Read in part before the Society, February 5, 1889. 
The progress of American independence. A paper read before the Society, 

April 2, 1889. By the Hon. George S. Boutwell. 8vo, pp. 31. New 

York, 1889. 
An act to exempt the library edifice of the Society from sale under execution, 

June 13, 1889. 8vo, pp. 2. [New York, 1889.] 
The uses of History. An address before the Society on its eighty-fifth 

anniversary, November 21, 1889. By John Hall, D.D. 8vo, pp. 27. 

New York, 1889. 
The Kembles of New York and New Jersey, 8vo., pp. vii-xxiii. Portrait, 

Reprint of the prefatory note of volume xvii, collections of Society. 

[New York, 1889.] 
The coaches of colonial New York. A paper read on the evening of March 

4, 1890, before the Society. By George W. W. Houghton. 8vo, pp. 31. 

New York, 1890. 

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Connecticut federalism, or aristocratic politics in a social democracy. An 
address delivered before the Society on its eighty-sixth anniversary, Tues- 
day, November 18, 1890. By James C. Welling, LL.D. 8vo, pp. 43. 
New York, 1890. 

Suum Cuique. John Dickinson, the author of the declaration on taking 
up arms in 1775. By George H. Moore, LL.D. Read before the Society, 
June 6, 1882. With a facsimile from the original draft. 8vo, pp. 53, 
(2), (8). New York, 1890. 

Collegium Regale Novi Eboraci. The origin and early history of Columbia 
College. By George H. Moore, LL.D. Read before the Society, April 
5, 1887. 8vo, pp. 46. New York, 1890. 

Myvyrian Archaeology. The Pre-Columbian voyages of the Welsh to 
America. By B. F. De Costa. Read before the Society, April 1, 1890. 
8vo, pp. 12. Reprint, Albany, 1891. 

Letter of committee on publications, February 23, 1891. 8vo, pp. 3. [New 
York, 1891.] 

A monograph on the founding of Jersey City. By Charles H. Winfield. 
Read before the Society, June 2, 1891. 8vo, pp. 97. Portraits and plates. 
New York, 1891. 

Resident members of the Society, January, 1892. 8vo, pp. 15. [New York, 
1892.] 

New York in 1850 and in 1890. A political study. An address delivered 
before the Society on its eighty-seventh anniversary, Tuesday, November 

17, 1891, by the Hon. Seth Low, LL.D. 8vo, pp. 32. New York, 1892. 
Appeal to the members and to the citizens of New York, January 19, 1892. 

8vo, pp. 2. [New York, 1892.] 
King George's personal policy in England. How it forced his subjects in 

America, against their wishes, into a successful revolution. By Edward 

F. De Lancey. Read before the Society, April 5, 1892. 8vo, pp. 431-448. 

[Reprint, New York, 1892.] 
Columbian celebration of 1792. The first in the United States. An address 

before the Society, October 4, 1892. By Edward F. De Lancey. 8vo, pp. 

18. Two portraits and four plates. Reprint. New York, 1893. 
Catalogue of the museum and gallery of art, 1893. 8vo, pp. vii, 73, 98. 

New York, 1893. 
Political parties and their places of meeting in New York City. By Thomas 

E. V. Smith. Read before the Society, February 7, 1893. 8vo, pp. 30. 

New York, 1893. 
The siege of Cuantla, the Bunker Hill of Mexico. An address before the 

Society, April 4, 1893. By Walter S. Logan. 8vo, pp. 27. New York, 

1893. 
Circular letter of committee on the two hundredth anniversary of the intro- 
duction of the printing press in New York, April 5, 1893. 4to, pp. 3. 

[New York, 1893.] 
Anneke Jans Bogardus and her farm. By James W. Gerard. Read before 

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the Society, May 6, 1879. In Harper's New Monthly, May, 1885. 8vo, 

pp. 836-849. New York, 1885. 
The Manor of Philipsburgh. A paper read before the Society, by T. Astley 

Atkins. June 5, 1894. Svo, pp. 23. Yonkers, 1894. Published by the 

Yonkers Historical and Library Association. 
Hopoghan Hackingh, Hoboken, a pleasure resort for old New York. By 

Charles H. Winfield, in two parts. Part II. read before the Society, 

December 4, 1894. 4to, pp. 80. Facsimile of Indian deed, July 12, 

1630, and 8 plates. [New York, 1895.] 
The charter and by-laws of the Society. Revised May, 1895. 8vo, pp. 24. 

New York, 1895. 
The patriot clergy and the New York City chaplains in the War of the Revolu- 
tion. An address before the Society, April 3, 1894, by Ashbel G. Vermilye, 

D.D., Board of Publication of the Reformed Church in America. 8vo, 

pp. 28. New York, 1895. 
William Atwood, chief-justice of the colony of New York, 1701-1702. By 

Charles P. Daly, LL.D. Read before the Society, May 1, 1894. In the 

Green Bag, March-May, 1895, with additions. 
Cabot and the transmission of English power in North America. An address 

before the Society on its ninety-second anniversary, November 18, 1896. 

By Justin Winsor, LL.D. Svo, pp. 38. New York, 1896. 
The establishment of public parks in the City of New York. By Gherardi 

Davis. Read before the Society, April 6, 1897. 12mo, pp. 46, (1). [New 

York, 1897.] 
List of members of the Society, January, 1898. Svo, pp. 14. [New York, 

1898.] 
The Palisades. By Ashbel G. Vermilye, D.D. Read before the Society, 

October 5, 1897. 8vo, pp. 335-350. Reprint. 
A memoir of William Kelby, librarian of the Society. By John Austin 

Stevens. Read before the Society, November 1, 1898. Svo, pp. 40. New 

York, 1898. 
List of members of the Society, February, 1900. 8vo, pp. 14. [New York, 

1900.] 
Journalism in New York in 1800. A paper read before the Society, April 3, 

1900. By Francis W. Halsey. In The Journalist, New York, April 7, 1900. 
The old and the new century. An address before the Society on its ninety- 
sixth anniversary, November 20, 1900. By Marvin R. Vincent, D.D. 

Svo, pp. 45. New York, 1900. 
Memorial of the Hon. John Alsop King, eighteenth president of the Society. 

By the Very Rev. Eugene A. Hoffman, D.D. Read before the Society, 

February 5, 1901. 8vo, pp. 27. Portrait. New York, 1901. 
Appendix to catalogue of gallery of art, 1894-1901 . Svo, pp. 3. [New York, 

1901.] 
Circular letters building committee, April 17 and November 4, 1901. 4to. 

Plates. £New York, 1901.] 

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Colonial homes in the Bronx. By Randall Canifort. Read before the Society, 

November 6, 1901. In Bronx Borough Record, October 21, 1901. 
Letter of committee on membership, November 21, 1901. 4to, pp. 3. 

Plates. [New York, 1901.] 
Before and after the treaty of Washington. The American Civil War and 

the war in the Transvaal. An address before the Society on its ninety- 
seventh anniversary, November 19, 1901. By Charles Francis Adams, 

LL.D. Svo, pp. 141. New York, 1902. 
John Pintard, founder of The New York Historical Society. An address 

before the Society, December 3, 1901. By James Grant Wilson. Svo. 

pp. 37. Portrait. New York, 1902. 
List of subscribers to the building fund, to December 31, 1901. Svo, pp. 4, 

Plates. [New York, 1902.] 
List of members of the Society, February, 1902. Svo, pp. 15. New York, 1902. 
Letter of committee on publications, February 15, 1902. 8vo, pp. 3. [New 

York, 1902.] 
Communication to the members of the Society, from the building committee, 

February 15, 1902. Oblong 4to, pp. 13. Plates. [New York, 1902.] 
Address commemorative of Eugene Augustus Hoffman. By William R. 

Huntington, D.D. Read before the Society, December 2, 1902. 8vo, 

pp. 28. Portrait. New York, 1903. 
Memorial to the Governor, the Senate and Assembly of the State of New 

York, December, 2 1902. 4to, pp. 2. 
List of members of the Society, February, 1903. Svo, pp. 15. [New York* 

1903.] 
Catalogue of the museum and gallery of art, 1903. 8vo, pp. vii, 73, 102. 

New York, 1903. 
The genius of the cosmopolitan city. An address before the Society on its 

ninety-ninth anniversary, November 17, 1903. 8vo, pp. 42. New York, 

1904. 
Charter, by-laws, officers, members, report of executive committee. 8vo, 

pp. 67. Plates. New York, 1904. 
Banquet of the Society, November 22, 1904, in commemoration of the one 

hundredth anniversary of its founding. Menu, toasts, committee, views 

of homes of Society. 8vo, pp. 14. New York, 1904. 
Seating plan, members and guests present at banquet, November 22, 1904. 

Broadside. 
Letter of committee on anniversary medal, January 3, 1905. 8vo, pp. 2. 

Plate. [New York, 1905.] 
The New York Historical Society, 1804-1904. By Robert H. Kelby. 

With appendix, list of officers and members, subscribers to building fund, 

funds of the Society, and bibliography. Svo, pp. viii-160. 5 Plates. Fac- 
simile of minutes of the Society, November 20, 1804; Portraits of founders; 

Homes of the Society; Portraits of Presidents, 1805-1849 and 1850-1905; 

Portrait of Henry Dexter. Printed for the Society. New York, 1905. 

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